Julio Cortazar Quotes

The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.

I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.

Every creative story is different. And yet every creative story is the same: There was nothing, now there is something. It's almost like magic.

You may think you don't have talents, but that is a false assumption, for we all have talents and gifts, every one of us. The bounds of creativity extend far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen, or the keys of a piano. Creation means bringing into existence something that did not exist before-colorful gardens, harmonious homes, family memories, flowing laughter.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.

Art is the expression of imagination, not the reproduction of reality.

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

In the world of words the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

I think a diversity of expression can only be good, so I think the more that people write about their experience, use their imagination to deal with their experience, you know, I think that's going to be good for not only for those authors but also for people who are interested in trying to understand it.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.