More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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.
