More Quotes by Italo Calvino
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.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
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 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.
