Quotes by Calvino, Italo

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. >>

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to r >>

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floa >>

Quotations about Autobiography

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form >>

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who hav >>

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious histor >>

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.

Calvino, Italo