More Quotes by Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
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.
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.
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.
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.
