Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The lives of individuals of the human race form a constant plot, in which every attempt to isolate one piece of living… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“(one would say yes, if not every day, at least fairly regularly), whether only for yourself or also for others (often only for yourself,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The Great Khan tried to concentrate on the game: but now it was the game’s reason that eluded him. The end of every game… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: "I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The naked man had lost hope now; he would never be able to return to the earth's surface;he would never leave the bottom of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The art of writing tales consists in an ability to draw the rest of life from the little one has understood of it; but… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a novel that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
