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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

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

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.

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.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

I detest this contemporary trend to destroy the traditional hierarchy of genres.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

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.

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

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.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

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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