Italo Calvino, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler Quotes
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.
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.
...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.
the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.
The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.
With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.
again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering.