“Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.”
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923–1985Related quotes
"The Obscurity of the Poet". p. 9
No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)
Variant: How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, “Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t” — is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
“Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.”
On Active Service in Peace and War (1948)
"Breaking into the Writing Game"
The Illiterate Digest (1924)
“In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories.”
Source: The Library at Night
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 40.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
