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.
From Italo Calvino
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.
I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!
I was born in Cuba, and my parents were tropical agronomists.
My university work was not central to my education.
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