More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
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 universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
