Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvinowas an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Citiesand If on a winter's night a traveler...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 October 1923
CountryItaly
art
I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!
life
I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.
late morning slowly start terrified
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.
full occupy stories
My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.
america arouse nature
Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.
New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.
grew hemingway
Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
moves politics
Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.
clear head life promote throughout writers
I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.
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In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.
fit ought precise
Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.
becoming figure public
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.
certain collective convinced order solve work
I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.