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More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
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.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
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.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
