Quotes by : Julio Cortázar

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind....

Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.

Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature;....

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills....

An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the....

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

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

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

Explanation is a well-dressed error.

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills....