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

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" 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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" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "

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

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

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

" The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "

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

" 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. "

" Folktales are real. "

" 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. "

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