Manuel Puig Quotes

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

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

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

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

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.

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

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

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.

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

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

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

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

--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that one's never ever going to feel unhappy again.