Italo Calvino Quotes

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Anything that I write comes from the soul.

I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk.

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.

I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.

If I have a long period of time away from acting, I tend to write.

Of course, I write. I have stories to tell. But I don't want to do superficial stuff any more.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

I like writing.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I think writing gives me creative freedom.

As authors, we know that it is very difficult to unleash one's creativity.

Writing is more important than being a writer.

I'm constantly creating and writing.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

When you write, don't say, "I'm going to write a poem." That attitude will freeze you right away. Sit down with the least expectation of yourself; say, "I am free to write the worst junk in the world."