Manuel Puig Quotations

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

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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

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.