My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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.Manuel Puig
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.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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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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.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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