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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

" Folktales are real. "

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

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

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

" I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "