Quotes by : Italo Calvino

The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only....

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said somewhat....

Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers.....

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.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other....

There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say....

The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash....

…Marco’s answers and objections took their place in a discourse already proceeding on its own, in....