Quotes by : Julio Cortázar

Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon....

All European writers are ‘slaves of their baptism,’ if I may paraphrase Rimbaud; like it or not,....

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between,....

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager....

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature....

For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches....

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution,....

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless....

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all....

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.