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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.
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
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.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
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.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
