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Books Quotes by Italo Calvino
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?
- What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure…
- Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is…
- Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you…
- There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that such a library…
- You're the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. There are plenty, younger than you or less young, who live…
- It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.
- Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books…
- How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to…
- The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an…
- Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually…
More Books Quotes
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine