Quotes by : Manuel Puig

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential....

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

--And the good thing about feeling happy, you know, Valentin? ...It's that you think it's forever, that....

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

—And what's so bad about being soft like a woman? Why is it men or whoever, some poor bastard, some....

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe it's a part of it.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.