A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustme….

Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that som….

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives decei….

Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination ….

Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities..

Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me, "but you will ariv….

The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of the world after the ….

The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a singl….

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books..

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly..

What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthfu….

In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homog….

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for th….

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight ….

Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you….

The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there..

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outsi….

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans..

Having exhausted every possibility at the moment when he was coming full circle, Antonino realised that photographing photographs was the only course….

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond..

I had fallen in love. What I mean is: I had begun to recognize, to isolate the signs of one of those from the others, in fact I waited for these sign….