Italo Calvino Quotes

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

I saw literature as a fantasy, no less absorbing for all its irrelevance - a parallel life, as dreams shadow waking but never intersect it.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

Books are packaged dreams.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have a fantasy. Everybody must have a fantasy.

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams .

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought.

I grew up watching classic animation, and I have always felt that the roots of animation is in fantasy and taking it in places that you can't go, any other way.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.

imaginary things were often the only items of real substance in people's lives.