Quotes About Author

It is necessary to distinguish the nationalism of the oppressing nations from the nationalism of the oppressed

But on 1 March 1881 the conspirators succeeded in assassinating the Tsar. To

The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message ' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.

To the celestial Rose, who drew me into her lovely orbit. With love and gratitude, Theo.

Isabella Mary Beeton

I would never exhange safety for freedom, regardless or the danger. I had the right to risk my life as I chose. -Chapter 21, page 247

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Hi! My little hut Is newly-thatched I see... Blue morning-glories

Well, if it is snobbish to exercise one's taste, then I admit I am a snob.

So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don't recognize it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself.

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.

Perhaps my true vocation was that of author of apocrypha, in the several meanings of the term: because writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my pen is like a shard that has been chipped from a great boulder by a violent impact, then flung far away; because there is no certitude outside falsification.

in his view, literature's worth lies in its power of mystification, in mystification it has its truth; therefore a fake, as the mystification of a mystification, is tantamount to a truth squared. He

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

Dati biografici: io sono ancora di quelli che credono, con Croce, che di un autore contano solo le opere. (Quando contano, naturalmente.) Perciò dati biografici non ne do, o li do falsi, o comunque cerco sempre di cambiarli da una volta all'altra. Mi chieda pure quel che vuol sapere, e Glielo dirò. Ma non Le dirò mai la verità, di questo può star sicura. Lettera a Germana Pescio Bottino, 9 giugno 1964

It is not the voice that commands the story, it is the ear

I took this dialogue as a warning to be on guard: the world is falling apart and tries to lure me into its disintegration.

Would you like to be in his place, to establish that exclusive bond, that communion of inner rhythm that is achieved through a book's being read at the same time, by two people, as you thought possible with Ludmilla?

Dall'introduzione sul ruolo sociale di lettrice per passione disinteressata. È un ruolo sociale cui credo, e che è il presupposto del mio lavoro, non solo di questo libro. Né mi dimentico neanche per un minuto (dato che vivo di diritti d'autore) che il lettore è acquirente, che il libro è un oggetto che si vende sul mercato. Chi crede di poter prescindere dall'economicità dell'esistenza e da tutto ciò che essa comporta, non ha mai avuto il mio rispetto.

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.

My sister always says she loves novels where you feel an elemental strength, primordial, telluric. That's exactly what she says: telluric

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

Since I have become a slave of writing, the pleasure of reading has ended for me.