Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

I only understand realism.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

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

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

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.

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