Italo Calvino Quotes

Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.

I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.

Oftentimes when you see adaptations of books you like, you're let down. As an author, you assume that they are going to suck. A little bit of hope is dangerous.

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

I can't tell you how excited I was when I joined my first book club, but I can tell you how much I immediately regretted it.

Books are like tweets, except longer.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

To start with, look at all the books.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

Literature has become my life.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.

I love to get books, because I love to read.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.