More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
