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Manuel Puig

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

Power

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" 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. "

Universe , Writer

" 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. "

Therapy

" Writers are not meant for action. "

Action , Writers

" Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. "

Thinking

" What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. "

Work

" What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? "

Dreams

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

Power

" I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. "

Fear

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

Literary

" 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. "

Desire , Information , Reading , Help

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

Literature , Decision

" 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. "

Work , Nature , Fantasy

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