Quotes by Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

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If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Sections in the bookstore- Books You Haven't Read- Books You Needn't Read- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading- B — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
What is more natural than that a solidity, a complicity, a bond should be established between Reader and Reader, thanks — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes. — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered; because the truth that can come from my — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
How well I would write if I were not here! If between the white page and the writing of words and stories that take shap — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual tra — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual tra — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't say a — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I seem to b — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Reading," he says, "is always this: there is a thing that is there, a thing made of writing, a solid material object, wh — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in whi — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story. — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: h — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence. — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness. — Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler