You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. ― Anthony Trollope

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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

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When writing a novel, a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. - Ernest Hemingway

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