If a spectator with a ...

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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
 Manuel Puig
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
 Manuel Puig
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
 Manuel Puig
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
 Manuel Puig
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.
 Manuel Puig