Italian - Journalist | October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985
Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
Italo Calvino
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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.
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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.
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The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
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Folktales are real.
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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.
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I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
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I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
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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.
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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?
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If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.
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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.
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