102 Quotes by Manuel Puig

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don’t they?

I write novels because there is something I don’t understand in reality.

I believe that people who don’t achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at all.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you’ll never be unhappy again.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn’t have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

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.

I don’t want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I’m suspicious.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it’s essential to be free.