More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
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.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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 solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
