I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.
Julio CortázarFor me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.
Julio CortázarAn admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writing as a kind of exorcism, casting off invading creatures by projecting them into universal existence, keeping them on the other side of the bridge… It may be exaggerating to say that all completely successful short stories, especially fantastic stories, are products of neurosis, nightmares or hallucination neutralized through objectification and translated to a medium outside the neurotic terrain. This polarization can be found in any memorable short story, as if the author, wanting to rid himself of his creature as soon and as absolutely as possible, exorcises it the only way he can: by writing it.
Julio CortázarMots clés writing writers fantasy story horror genre fantastic
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.
Julio CortázarMots clés writing writers fantasy story horror genre fantastic
We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written.
Julio CortázarMots clés writing attention concentration coincidence
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
Julio CortázarAll profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.
Julio CortázarMots clés writing creativity distraction
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
Julio CortázarMots clés poetry writing language wordplay
... no es nominalismo, no es magia, solamente que las cosas no se pueden variar así de pronto, a veces las cosas viran brutalmente y cuando usted esperaba la bofetada a la derecha.
Julio Cortázar... yo creo que las mujeres tejen cuando han encontrado en esa labor el gran pretexto para no hacer nada.
Julio CortázarMots clés mujeres
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