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I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.

~Italo Calvino

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

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I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.

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I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored and my drawer is overflowing with unfinished short poems.

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If the reader looks, I think he will find plenty of moral and political ideas in my stories.

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I suffer from everyday life.

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Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

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For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

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I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Journalist

Born: October 15th, 1923

Died: September 19th, 1985

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