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" Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior. "

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" I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing. "

Italo Calvino

Hand

Writing

Words

" 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 do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life. "

" Folktales are real. "

Italo Calvino

Real

" I suffer from everyday life. "

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

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

" Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing. "

" My university work was not central to my education. "

" 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. "

" The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. "

" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. "

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

" Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer. "

Italo Calvino

Time

Fiction

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

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

" 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. "

Italo Calvino

World

My Own

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

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

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

Italo Calvino

Start

I Am

" A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. "

" 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. "

Italo Calvino

Story

Try

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

" Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. "

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

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

" My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature. "

" I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems. "

" Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. "

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