Quotes by Calvino, Italo

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear. >>

Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floa >>

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its cit >>

Quotations about Genius

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much >>

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort >>

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the op >>

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

Calvino, Italo