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Manuel Puig

"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently."

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Donna Grant

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

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Donna Grant

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

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Donna Grant

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

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Donna Grant

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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Donna Grant

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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Donna Grant

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

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Donna Grant

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

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Donna Grant

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

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Donna Grant

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

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

Money

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Manuel Puig
"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."

Imagination

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Manuel Puig
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

Nature

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

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Manuel Puig
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope."

Life

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Manuel Puig
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."

Decision-Making

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

Beauty

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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."

Problems

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Manuel Puig
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution."

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Manuel Puig
"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."

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