Quotes from Manuel Puig

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

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

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

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.

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

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

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

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

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

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

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

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

Ser hombre es mucho más todavía, es no rebajar a nadie, con una orden, con una propina. Es más, es… no permitir que nadie al lado tuyo se sienta menos, que nadie al lado tuyo se sienta mal.