Italo Calvino Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.”

“I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!”

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

“Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.”

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

“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 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.”

“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”

“I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.”

“I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.”