More Quotes by Italo Calvino
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
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.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
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.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
