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

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" 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. "

" I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois. "

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

" A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "