Paolo Cognetti Quotes

“As soon as we are born, we instinctively scream, and it takes us forever to learn to listen.”

“In writing there is no teacher to explain where you are wrong and it can be a long time before you find out for yourself.”

“Literature does not arise from what we know, but from what we don't know. Which attracts us. Which haunts us. that we want to know.”

“We are the stories we tell, whoever listens to them certifies our existence. We are our repertoire of stories, no matter if true or invented, and we exchange them as a gift.”

“You don't catch them, fish, if you don't have the courage to go where they are.”