Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

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

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Writers are not meant for action.