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The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
― Italo Calvino
Express
Universe
Somebody
Italo Calvino
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
― Italo Calvino
Reading
Solitude
Presence
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.
― Italo Calvino
Come
Respect
Love
Italo Calvino
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible.
― Italo Calvino
Confining
Writing
Immensity
Italo Calvino
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.
― Italo Calvino
Lovemaking
Reading
Measurable
Italo Calvino
I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.
― Italo Calvino
Dreams
Mercury
Reflects
Impulses
Italo Calvino
We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.
― Italo Calvino
Army
Trees
People
Senses
Italo Calvino
Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.
― Italo Calvino
Life
Moments
Ancient Paradise
Italo Calvino
Of course, the ideal position for reading is something you can never find.
― Italo Calvino
Of Course
Position
Reading
Never Find
Italo Calvino
The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.
― Italo Calvino
Reality
Photographed
Beautiful
Very Narrow
Italo Calvino
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
― Italo Calvino
Harbor
Receive
Securely
Library
Italo Calvino
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
― Italo Calvino
Reading
Toward
Something
Italo Calvino
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
― Italo Calvino
Place
Natural
Foreigner
Italo Calvino
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
― Italo Calvino
Ultimate
Meaning
Stories
Continuity
Inevitability
Italo Calvino
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
― Italo Calvino
Darkness
Sunset
Blueprint
Italo Calvino
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
― Italo Calvino
Evening
Assertion
Fantasy
Italo Calvino
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
― Italo Calvino
Images
Fixed
Words
Italo Calvino
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.
― Italo Calvino
Novels
Attract
Transperancy
Relationships
Italo Calvino
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
― Italo Calvino
Reading
Novel
Traveler
Winter's
Italo Calvino
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
― Italo Calvino
Delight
Seventy
Wonders
Question
Italo Calvino