Quotes by 'Manuel Puig'

Manuel Puig

Manuel Puigwas an Argentine author...

rock-and-roll rocks literature

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

reading literature different

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

literature influence great-literary

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

trying use literature

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

book literature waste

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

objectivity cameras literature

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.

hygiene tardiness literature

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

literature taste watches

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

decision sides literature

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

north-wind america literature

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.

character novelists literature

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

novel facade aesthetic

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

teaching people madness

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

dream reality thinking

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