Quotes by : Italo Calvino

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

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening....

There are days when everything I see seems to me charged with meaning: messages it would be difficult....

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if....

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax.....

Long novels written today are perhaps a contradiction: the dimension of time has been shattered, we cannot....

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised,....

I am the man who comes and goes between the bar and the telephone booth. Or, rather:that man is called....

A person, for example, reads in adulthood a book that is important for him, and it makes him say, "How....

We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses.