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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italian Journalist
Born: Oct 15, 1923
Died: Sep 19, 1985
Books Every Me Think Writing You
Related authors: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Giovanni Guareschi Giovanni Papini Loretta Napoleoni Luigi Barzini Oriana Fallaci Renata Adler
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. Italo Calvino
Me World Country Important Own Translation Would Would-Be Borders My Own He Ally Most Without Limited Translator
It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear. Italo Calvino
Communication Voice Commands Story Ear
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Italo Calvino
Saying Book Finished Say Classic Never
Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey. Italo Calvino
Ugly Slightest Immediately Small Strut Dirty Highly Like Although Am Ambitious Flattery Turkey Start
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. Italo Calvino
Think Innovative Books Find Classics More Through Know Read Hearsay Unexpected Which Them Original Actually
A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway. Italo Calvino
Work Noise Background Classic Totally Persists Holds Which Sway Even Incompatible Present
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. Italo Calvino
Myself Me Others Intolerable More More And More Writer Becoming Author Public Public Figure Figure Consequently
One writes fables in periods of oppression. Italo Calvino
Oppression Fables Writes Periods
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. Italo Calvino
Energy Books Rules Memoirs Rate More Write Open Had Without Genuine How How Much Testimonial Been Provide Italy Trying Any Preconceived Short Stories Short Stories Might Modest Notes Plan Us Much Useful Less Novel Wasted Things
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins. Italo Calvino
Will Every Cities City Born Variety Shape Catalogue New Come Until Exhaust Continue End Begins Endless Apart Forms Found
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. Italo Calvino
You Travel Lost Dust Differences Cloud Distances Cities City Exchange Takes Continents Order Form Places Realize Resembling Each Traveling
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. Italo Calvino
Knowledge World Better He Attracted Attraction Concern Forced Him Himself Gaining Repulsion Satirist
I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres. Italo Calvino
Trend Destroy Hierarchy Detest Contemporary Genres Traditional
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written. Italo Calvino
Life Think Something Written Afraid Which Really
I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality. Italo Calvino
Today Politics Reality Think Society Other Late Channels Through Feel Very Often Which Things
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
Madness Style Way City Logic Through Writer Towards Opens Encourages Which Vigor
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. Italo Calvino
Will Beginning Facts Never Contemporary Occupy End Stories Literature Place Full Reason
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself. Italo Calvino
Best Man Matter About Had Simply Know Providing Itself Information Chance
I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running. Italo Calvino
Change Book Same Thing Field Believe Running Never Because Method Reference Times Same Thing Two
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? Italo Calvino
Art Add Earth Solemn Would Attempt Most Pile Nonsense Inexpressible Pinpoint Modern Modern Art Sensations Appeared Ever Vague
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. Italo Calvino
Book Writing Speak Result Try Finished About Only Because Understand Done Intentions Prefer Really Compare
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists. Italo Calvino
Parents Born Tropical Cuba Were
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal. Italo Calvino
Born Network Tale Always Creates Meanings Image
New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city. Italo Calvino
City Fabulous New York New York
I spend 12 hours a day reading on most days of the year. Italo Calvino
Day Reading Year Spend Days Hours Most
I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway. Italo Calvino
Writer Never Any Loved Much Hemingway
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