Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
Italo Calvino Quotes
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
Similar Quotes
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
- Maude AdamsReal genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
- Edmund WilsonThe only guaranteed way to be a genius is to surround yourself with idiots.
- Ziad K. AbdelnourMr Robert Montgomery’s genius [is] far too free and aspiring to be shackled by the rules...
- Thomas Babington MacaulayA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discov
- James JoyceComments on: "Italo Calvino Quotes: What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than..."
| Birth: | 15th October, 1923 |
| Death: | 19th September, 1985 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Writer |
About
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Share with your friends