550 Quotes by Italo Calvino

I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.

I'm terrified of writing at night, for then I can't sleep. So I start slowly, slowly writing in the morning and go on into the late afternoon.