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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. "

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

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

" 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. "

" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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