Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.