“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.”
“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
“I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading.”
“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”
“You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna)”
“Are you New World or Old?''Sounds like a novel by Henry James.''Never read him.''Don't. But that was his question and he plumped for the Old.”