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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.
Manuel Puig
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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.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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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.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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