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Italo Calvino Quotes

Italian - Journalist | October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

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

Good Literature Something Different

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

Loved Never Writer Much Any

I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.

Passion Great Police Find Him Read

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

Believe Chance Literature Play Role

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.

Words Writing Speak Say Hand Write

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Together Short Structure Up Made

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

Beginning Believe End I Believe Like

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.

Best Experience Chance Rich Loved

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Think Unexpected Find Know More

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

Work Present Classic Noise Even

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

Nails Write Finger Divide Who Some

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.

Me Ideas Think You Perfect Wrong

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