If a book exists for you, you don't have to read the book. - Italo Calvino

"If a book exists for you, you don't have to read the book."

Italo Calvino Literature

Novelist Italian 1923–1985

More from Italo Calvino

"The city is redundant: it repeats itself so that something will stick in the mind."

"The invisible city is the one that cannot be forgotten."

"Travelling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities."

"I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities."

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

"Literature opens the mind to new worlds"

"The interesting thing about books is that they're made of words."

"Literature captures the essence of what it means to be human."