Manuel Puig

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

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

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?