Top 61 Quotes by Manuel Puig

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

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

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

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.