Now you mustn’t think that I don’t have any ideas for novels in my head. I’ve got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I’ve got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that’s what stumps me. Italo Calvino Read Quote
Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. Italo Calvino Read Quote
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. Italo Calvino Read Quote
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. Italo Calvino Read Quote
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. Italo Calvino Read Quote
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. Italo Calvino Read Quote
The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. Italo Calvino Read Quote
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running. Italo Calvino Read Quote
