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" I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon. "
Italo Calvino
Morning
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Sleep
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" Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. "
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" I don't believe chance can play a role in my literature. "
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" I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year. "
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" I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. "
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" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. "
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" Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness. "
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" Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. "
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" 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. "
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" Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. "
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" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "
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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. "
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" The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. "
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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. "
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" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "
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" Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. "
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" 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. "
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" Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession. "
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" 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. "
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" A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "
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" Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. "
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" 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. "
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" I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. "
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" 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. "
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