English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Italo Calvino Quotes

My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. 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. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.

Italo Calvino

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician. Leo Kottke
Mark Zuckerberg quote: "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you..."
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough. Mark Zuckerberg
Jay-Z quote: "Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in..."
Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky. Jay-Z
Lao Tzu quote: "Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from..."
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. Lao Tzu
Kylie Minogue quote: "I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years..."
I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now. Kylie Minogue
Tennessee Williams quote: "Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running..."
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.... Tennessee Williams
J. K. Rowling quote: "Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you..."
Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it. J. K. Rowling
One of the juiciest pleasures of life is to be able to salute and embrace, as elected leaders and honored representatives, people whom you first met when they were on the run or in exile or (like Adam) in and out of jail. I was to have this experience again, and I hope to have it many more times in the future: it sometimes allows me to feel that life is full of point. Christopher Hitchens
And so, he knows. He wants, he needs, to do the immoral, irresponsible thing. He wants to let this boy court his own destruction. He wants to commit that cruelty. Or (kinder, gentler version) he doesn't want to reconfirm his allegiance to the realm of the sensible, all the good people who take responsibility, who go to the right and necessary parties, who sell art made of two-by-fours and carpet remnants. He wants, for at least a little while, to live in that other, darker world - Blake's... Michael Cunningham
Pete Townshend quote: "I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth."
I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. Pete Townshend
So far, then," said Danglars, mentally, "all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantes being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and," added he with a smile, "she will take her own." So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board the Pharaon, where M. Morrel had agreed to meet him. Alexander Dumas
Julius Streicher quote: "The president of the United States and his secretary of state..."
The president of the United States and his secretary of state were made honorary Hebrews. Julius Streicher
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially. Vicente Fox
Keith Hernandez quote: "Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an..."
Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. Keith Hernandez
Celine Dion quote: "The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother."
The first song that I ever recorded was written by my mother. Celine Dion