Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

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

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

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.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.