I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I say to myself that the result of the unnatural effort to which I subject myself, writing, must be the respiration of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Success consists in felicity of verbal expression, which every so often may result from a quick flash of inspiration but as a… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Instead of making myself write the book I ought to write, the novel that was expected of me, I conjured up the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Memory, or rather experience -- which is the memory of the event plus the wound it has inflicted on you, plus the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The book should be the written counterpart of the unwritten world; its subject should be what does not exist and cannot exist… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. — 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
