Manuel Puig Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

  Manuel Puig

  Needs, Stories, Literature

• If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

  Manuel Puig

  Character, Novelists, 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

  Watches, Literature, Taste

• 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.

  Manuel Puig

  North Wind, America, United States

• 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.

  Manuel Puig

  Stay Strong, New York, Teaching

• 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?

  Manuel Puig

  Country, Writing, People

• I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Reality, Literature

• 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.

  Manuel Puig

  Reality, Cinema, Literature

• I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

  Manuel Puig

  Dream, Reality, Thinking

• 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, Hands, Doe

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

  Manuel Puig

  Intellectual, Novelists, Literature

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  Manuel Puig

  Hygiene, Literature, Tardiness

• 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.

  Manuel Puig

  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

• It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

  Manuel Puig

  Party, Views, Hands

• 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.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Philosophical, Reading

• I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Reading, Writing

• I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

  Manuel Puig

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Literature

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

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Successful, People

• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

  Manuel Puig

  Trying, Needs, Use

• I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

  Manuel Puig

  Decision, Literature, Sides

• I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

  Manuel Puig

  Character, Special, Trying

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

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Influence, Great Literary

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

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

• I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

  Manuel Puig

  Literature, Novel, Convince

• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  Manuel Puig

  Believe, Special, Literature

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