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

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Manuel Puig

Being

Fantasy

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

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

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

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Manuel Puig

Language

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

Manuel Puig

Content

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.

Manuel Puig

Reality

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.

Manuel Puig

First

Literature

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Manuel Puig

Taste

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Manuel Puig

Intuition

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 think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Manuel Puig

Humor

Universe

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

Manuel Puig