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Literature Quotes by Italo Calvino
- A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
- When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign - a bad sign mostly for literature. But…
- In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the…
- The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world…
- Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that…
- The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what…
- Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something…
- I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.
- My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
- Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
- Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
More Literature Quotes
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- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood
- The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
- There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of… — Russell Baker
- Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
- It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville