Quotes About Calvino

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

The villain raises first one eyebrow, then the other. "When I was young, all I wanted to read were pretentious little books. Camus and Tournier and Calvino. If it had a plot, I hated it." "You remain this way," Luisa chides, and he

I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

I've heard that you're in the pain business. I don't like doing work for that kind of man," said Vincent Calvino. Casey rolled his neck and a small cracking noise echoed from the bones inside. "If you worked only for people you liked, you wouldn't cover your rent.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

Imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other.

yell: "I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!" Or if you prefer, don't say anything; just hope they'll leave you alone.

I'm beginning to read Italo Calvino's new novel!