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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
