Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

" I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems. "

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

" 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 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Folktales are real. "

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

" Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. "

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

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