Julio Cortazar Quotes

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

The gods are fond of the cryptic and dislike the evident.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

I and this mystery, here we stand.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

One of the biggest problems in literature is the lack of subtlety.

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.

If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be - not understood, but divined.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Abraham Lincoln worked hard at being inscrutable. The tones, the gestures, the kindling eye, and the mirth-provoking look defy the reporter's skill.

There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.

That's the thing about dreams - they're ineffable. If you can get to the bottom of it, it's not a dream.

Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.