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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I suffer from everyday life. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it. "

" 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. "

" Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. "

" Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. "

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

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

" A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno. "

" 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. "

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

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

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