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
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I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year.
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.
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Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
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If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
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I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
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The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.
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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.
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I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
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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.
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A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.
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I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.