Manuel Puig Literature Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

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

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

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