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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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" Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me. "

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

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

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

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

" In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman. "

" 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 book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" One writes fables in periods of oppression. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature. "

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

" 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 suffer from everyday life. "