Italo Quotes

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. (Italo Calvino)
You might with advantage take out your map of modern literature and mark on it the name of Italo Svevo...for Svevo and his novel, Confessions of Zeno...will henceforth be on other people's maps, and it is well that the atlases of the enlightened should agree. View quote
Italo Svevo
I studied literature and Italian at Yale. I wrote my thesis about Italo Svevo, one of my heroes. View quote
Nathaniel Rich
Italo Calvino said the artist reveals that bit of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. Art is all about the art of lying. The artist's imperative is to create a supreme fiction, a lie that, paradoxically, discloses a truth. It's precisely this kind of paradox that Calvino and Fellini adored. View quote
Damian Pettigrew
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds. View quote
Alan Lightman
I want you to hold this for me, till I ask for it back. It looks like Italo is going to get here before Tamara, and I'm not sure which one. View quote
Thomas Pynchon