You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
Italo CalvinoA human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.
Italo CalvinoIt is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible
Italo CalvinoWhat about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.
Italo Calvino