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

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" I suffer from everyday life. "

" Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me. "

" 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. "

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

" Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end. "

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

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

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

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

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

" The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts. "

" 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? "

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

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