Italo Calvino Quotes

I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

I am not a Hemingway aficionado.

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

I'm a big Hemingway and Salinger fan.

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara, who isn't much read today but whose short stories I really admired, and Hemingway, who I think has lasted pretty good.

Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.

I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I love Martin Amis.

Even including myself, my favorite author is Eileen Spinelli, who I happen to live with. She's a terrific writer and has written several of my all-time favorites.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

I have, for a very long time, been a huge admirer of Marilynne Robinson, whose work I just love.

I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.

Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel. Everything has meaning. My students were not allowed not to like him!

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

And while I was talking, the idea of actually losing Peeta hit me again and I realized how much I don't want him to die. And it's not about the sponsors. And it's not about what will happen when we get home. And it's not just that I don't want to be alone. It's him. I do not want to lose the boy with the bread.

[She] had felt straight away that she wasn’t meeting a new friend, but recognizing an old one.