Italo Calvino Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Italo Calvino quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased journalist born on Oct 15, 1923). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 74 we have for him.
“Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.”
“My university work was not central to my education.”
“An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.”
“Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.”
“Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.”
“I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.”
“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.”
“Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.”
“Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.”
“I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.”
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