More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
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.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
