More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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.
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.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
