Italo Calvino Quotations | Page 2

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

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 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.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.