More Quotes by Italo Calvino
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.