Quote of the day
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Italo Calvino
Born: October 15, 1923
Died: September 19, 1985 (aged 61)
Bio: Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels.
Known for:
- Invisible Cities (1972)
- If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (1979)
- The Baron in the Trees (1957)
- Cosmicomics (1965)
- The Nonexistent Knight (1959)
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