"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

Time, Work, Waste

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"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

Explore more quotes by Manuel Puig

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

Humor, Universe

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

People, Teaching

"We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power."

Power, Irony, Needs

"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."

Reality,

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

Dream, Dreams, Cinema, Reality

"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you."

Space,

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."

Movies, Writer

"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

Environment, Unconscious

"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue."

Writing, Order, States, Teaching, United

"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."

Movies, Occupation

Exlpore more Time quotes

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Time, Knowledge, Facts, Forget

"Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Time, Day, Evening, Will

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, Day, Forget, Tomorrow, Spirit

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

Stephen King, American Author

Time, Regret, Today, Future

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention