Books Quote by Italo Calvino Download Open image ““You are quick to catch the author's intentions and nothing escapes you”” — Italo Calvino ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.” — Cleveland W. Gibson Copy Share Image
“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as… — Thomas Wharton Copy Share Image
“At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.” — Muna Adnan Naqi Copy Share Image
“At least be sure you go to the author to find his meaning, not to find yours.” — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Maybe not for anyone else, but for me, the kind of person I am, writing meant an attempt to sneak up on the truth,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“There is no other escape like a book. Reading expands your mind and opens your world to a myriad of possibilities.” — Fran Veal Copy Share Image
“Be aware that every word you know is going to try to sneak into your manuscript.” — Judith Ross Enderle Copy Share Image
“A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape. Even when you're the one writing it.” — Julie Wright Copy Share Image
“If you've spent more than an hour plotting a getaway route, you're either a writer or a criminal. Or maybe a cheating spouse.” — Peggy Rothschild Copy Share Image
“The Author Promise: Determine what you are going to give the reader, deliver it and never break that promise.” — Sarah Gerdes 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
