Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

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

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.

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

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.

Writers are not meant for action.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.