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

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" Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. "

" I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists. "

" Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. "

" Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts. "

" 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. "

" Without translation, I would be limited to the borders of my own country. The translator is my most important ally. He introduces me to the world. "

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

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

" I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. "

" I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. "

" I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running. "

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

" Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers. "

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

" I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. "

" I suffer from everyday life. "

" A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. "

" 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. "

" Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me. "

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

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

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

" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "