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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. "

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" 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. "

Italo Calvino

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Writer

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Try

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

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

" The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Italo Calvino

World

My Own

" 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. "

" I suffer from everyday life. "

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

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

" How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan. "

" Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession. "

" A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. "

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

" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "

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