More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
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.
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.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
