More Quotes by Italo Calvino
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
