More Quotes by Italo Calvino
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
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.
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.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
