Riqui Puig Quotes

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

Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of ~ Manuel Puig

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

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

- But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself.
- Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass. ~ Manuel Puig

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. ~ Manuel Puig

Writers are not meant for action. ~ Manuel Puig

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

As long as the team is pulling together, I'm happy to be a part of it. ~ Yasiel Puig

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

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

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

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

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. ~ Manuel Puig

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ~ Manuel Puig

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

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ~ Manuel Puig

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

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

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. ~ Manuel Puig

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

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