102 Quotes by Manuel Puig

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.