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Writer Quotes by Italo Calvino
- 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…
- I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
- Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.
- The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
- I have never loved any writer as much as Hemingway.
- I read Freud because I find him an excellent writer... a writer of police thrillers that can be followed with great passion.
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