Art Quote by Italo Calvino

“If you think about it, reading is a necessarily individual act, far more than writing. If we assume that writing manages to go beyond…

— Italo Calvino

“If, as I've said all along, the universe at any time is what you say it is, then say.”

— James Burke

“No one is asking, let alone demanding, that you write. The world is not waiting with bated breath for your article or book. Whether…

— Beth Mende Conny

Whether or not a text really is a universe unto itself, it is safe to say that it can only ever be as rich…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters…

— Galileo Galilei

“If something must be said, it will say itself. The writer's task is to listen.”

— Dalia Sofer

“there are as many universes as there are individuals to form them through thinking.”

— Emmet Fox

“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we’re not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a…

— Ali Smith

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“By writing books, a man turns into a universe.”

— Milan Kundera

“The universe is an illusion, created by consciousness to entertain itself.”

— Anje Kruger

“Write each day as if no one will see it, yet write in a way as if the whole world will see it.”

— Jon Mills