“ 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 unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking an… Italo Calvino
“ Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. Italo Calvino
“ Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. Italo Calvino
“ The seventh reader interrupts you: "Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could only end in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and her… Italo Calvino
“ The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph. Italo Calvino
“ Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Italo Calvino
“ Listening to someone read aloud is very different from reading in silence. When you read, you can stop or skip sentences: you are the one who sets the pace. When someone else is reading, it is difficu… Italo Calvino
“ The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. Italo Calvino
“ Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do,' Arkadian Porpirych says. 'What statistic allows one to identify the nations where literature enjoys true consideratio… Italo Calvino
“ Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once,… Italo Calvino
“ I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. Italo Calvino
“ 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. Italo Calvino
“ 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 continue in the beyond... Italo Calvino
“ They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recogni… Italo Calvino
“ 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 written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not w… Italo Calvino
“ Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books R… Italo Calvino
