Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puigwas an Argentine author...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 December 1932
humor thinking stories
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
writing thinking reader
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
men giving males
Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.
humor thinking universe
I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
long stories fantasy
I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
pleasure copies
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
intellectual patterns subjectivity
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
writing simple ukulele
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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.
believe reality scripts
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
new-york teaching order
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.
dream nocturnal synthesis
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?