More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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 novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.
