More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
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.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
