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Reading Quotes by Italo Calvino
- A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
- The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is…
- You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it…
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is…
- You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
- You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the…
- Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
- Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
- 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.
- Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to…
- Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need…
- Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
- Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.
- I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.
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- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. — Jane Austen