Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth? "

" 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. "

" I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works. "

" 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. "

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

" I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion. "

" 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. "

Political Party

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them. "

" 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'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. "

" Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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