(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.
Julio CortazarThe more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.
Julio CortazarFor 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 CortazarThe unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
Julio Cortazar