Quotes About Manuel Puig

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

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

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

Dependendo do humor de cada dia, podia soar folclórico, bizarro, sórdido, deprimente. Às vezes Pedro Almodóvar, às vezes Manuel Puig. Mas naquela noite eu estava exausto demais para achar qualquer coisa. Parecia pior, parecia real.

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

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

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.

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