More Quotes by Italo Calvino
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
