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.

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

Italo Calvino

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

Rarely does an interviewer ask questions you did not expect. I have given a lot of interviews, and I have concluded that the questions always look alike. I could always give the same answers.

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

How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to provide us with more modest, more genuine things, that had less pretensions: short stories, memoirs, notes, testimonials, or at any rate, books that are open, without a preconceived plan.

Italo Calvino

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