Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig
Manuel Puigwas an Argentine author...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 December 1932
needs stories felt
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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.
philosophical reading book
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.
two space giving
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
party views hands
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.
ghouls film exploration
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
aspiration tropics
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
views needs impossible
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
novel convince written
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
selling
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
occupation novel great-french
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.
realism
I only understand realism.
sellers translations best-sellers
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
tasks language tension
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!