Author: Calvino, Italo
Title: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Publisher: Mariner Books
Year: 2016
Link: https://worldcat.org/en/title/948668878
Pages 61 - 62:
I would like to put together a collection of stories consisting of a single sentence, or if possible a single line. But so far I haven't found any that surpass the one by the Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso: "When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there."