21 Quotes by Italo Calvino about writing





  • Author Italo Calvino
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    The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

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  • Author Italo Calvino
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    I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

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  • Author Italo Calvino
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    I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

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    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.

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