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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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" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "

" A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "

" I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party. "

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" Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. "

" Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. "

" Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger. "

" I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it. "

" For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist. "

" It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. "

" I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause. "

" The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. "

" In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system. "

" I suffer from everyday life. "

" I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. "

" Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me. "

" New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city. "

" Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. "

" I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year. "

" I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah! "

" I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. "

" Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write. "

" If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories. "

" When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result. "

" An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything. "

" A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. "

" I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. "

" 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. "

" In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. "

" I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. "

" The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. "