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

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

" Folktales are real. "

" 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 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. "

" I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems. "

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

" What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. "

" Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "

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

" 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. "