Creative Quotations from . . . His whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century. The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines. Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there.
Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top. But it is also a bad sign when they don't want to hear the word mentioned. Scroll down for sources of quotations and special search engines. See also CQ's recommended links to biographical websites Calvino Search the Web.