Top 74 Quotes by Italo Calvino

About Italo Calvino

These are some quotes by Italian author Italo Calvino Journalist, who lived between October 15, 1923 and September 19, 1985.

Folktales are real.

Folktales are real.

Italo Calvino

The Classics are those books which constitute a treasured experience for those who have read and loved them; but they remain just as rich an experience for those who reserve the chance to read them for when they are in the best condition to enjoy them.

Italo Calvino

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Italo Calvino

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Italo Calvino

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

Italo Calvino

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Italo Calvino

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Italo Calvino

Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Italo Calvino

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

Italo Calvino

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