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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.

~Manuel Puig

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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.

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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.

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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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

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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

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

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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.

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I only understand realism.

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Author

Born: December 28th, 1932

Died: July 22nd, 1990

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