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Write Quotes by Italo Calvino
- To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not…
- Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make…
- How well I would write if I were not here!
- I write... sonnets... and writing sonnets is boring. You have to find rhymes; you have to write hendecasyllables; so after a while, I get bored…
- Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or,…
- I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to hunt for words when…
- How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have been useful to…
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- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
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- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden