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" 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. "

Italo Calvino

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" I suffer from everyday life. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists. "

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

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

" Folktales are real. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. "

" 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. "

" The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them. "

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