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Fantasy is a place where it rains.
— Italo Calvino
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
— Italo Calvino
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, I read, therefore it writes.
— Italo Calvino
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
— Italo Calvino
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.
— Gore Vidal
In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.
— Italo Calvino
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
— Italo Calvino
And Polo answers, Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities ...
— Italo Calvino
A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.
— Italo Calvino
Perhaps, Kublai thought, the empire is nothing but a zodiac of the mind's phantasms.
— Italo Calvino
Reading is solitude.
— Italo Calvino
If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
— Italo Calvino
The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past:
— Italo Calvino
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
— Italo Calvino
How well I would write if I were not here!
— Italo Calvino
Will I ever be able to say, "Today it writes," just like "Today it rains," "Today it is windy"?
— Italo Calvino
No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it.
— Italo Calvino
How? Well, if a girl has had enough of every man who exists, her only remaining desire could be for a man who doesn't exist at all ...
— Italo Calvino
Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
— Italo Calvino
The fact is that I find in the day's light, in this diffused, pale, almost shadowless luminosity, a darkness deeper than the night's.
— Italo Calvino
The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
— 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 only truth I can write is that of the instant I am living.
— Italo Calvino
This is what I wanted to hear from you: confess what you are smuggling: moods, states of grace, elegies!
— Italo Calvino
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never ... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
— Italo Calvino
The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In
— Italo Calvino
I suffer from everyday life.
— Italo Calvino
If this is what you believe, you are wrong: Penthesilea
— Italo Calvino
Desires are already memories.
— Italo Calvino