Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvinowas an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Citiesand If on a winter's night a traveler...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 October 1923
CountryItaly
america arouse nature
Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
full occupy stories
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.
late morning slowly start terrified
I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.
life
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.
art
I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!
spent time
I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.
home
I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.
believe chance
I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature.
associate good life understand
I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.
destroy detest hierarchy trend
I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.
believe change field method
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
central education work
My university work was not central to my education.
regular
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.