Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

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

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

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.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

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.