Italo Calvino Quote

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 the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.


The Path to the Nest of Spiders (ed. 1976)


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 the big leap; the...

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 the big leap; the...

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 the big leap; the...

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 the big leap; the...