Italo Calvino Writer Quotations

The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

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

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.

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.