Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

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.

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 terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

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

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

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

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

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

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