Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

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 believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

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

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.