More Quotes by Italo Calvino
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
