"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."

Needs, Universe, Writer

37

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

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 Needs quotes

"The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Needs,

"How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Needs, Soul, Body, Trust, Confidence

"I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation."

Andrew Cuomo, American Politician

Needs,

"A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Needs,

"I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."

Charlotte Bronte, British Novelist

Needs, Love, Soul, Desire

"What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian."

Mack McLarty, American Politician

Needs,

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."

Julia Ward Howe, American Activist

Needs, Pen

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

Meister Eckhart, German Philosopher

Needs,

"So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition."

William Kirby, English Scientist

Needs, Opposition

"I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen."

Lisa Bonet, American Actress

Needs,