Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist
| Date of Birth | : | 15 Oct, 1923 |
| Date of Death | : | 19 Sep, 1985 |
| Place of Birth | : | Santiago de Las Vegas, Havana, Cuba |
| Profession | : | Italian Writer, Journalist |
| Nationality | : | Italian |
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany.
Quotes
Total 20 Quotes
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.
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.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
