More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
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.