Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

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.

I only understand realism.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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