102 Quotes by Manuel Puig

It’s essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

I’m not a best-seller, but through translations, I’ve accumulated some money.

It’s my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel’s aesthetic facade.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That’s the genesis of all my work.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you’re writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

What’s better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn’t have a personal point of view, it’s impossible to be a creator.

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There’s an objective and a subjective camera, like there’s a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

I’ve always wondered why there isn’t a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren’t interested in telling that sort of thing.