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Nature in America does not arouse powerful emotions in me.

I think today that politics registers very late things which society manifests through other channels, and I feel that often politics distorts and mystifies reality.

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Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself.

Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.

The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.

Folktales are real.

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

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

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

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.

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

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

I suffer from everyday life.

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.

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.

An exotic birthplace on its own is not informative of anything.

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

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