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.

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

Italo Calvino

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when I speak, and I have the same difficulty when writing.

Italo Calvino

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Italo Calvino

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Italo Calvino

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

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

Italo Calvino

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Italo Calvino

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

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

Italo Calvino

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Italo Calvino

A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a good half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless production, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

Italo Calvino

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

Italo Calvino

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