Famous quotes containing the words calvino and/or wrote:
“The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“I am devoted to those who endured, like Colette. It is easier ... to kiss the world a bitter goodbye than to go on working, writing, changing, enduring the slings & arrows of outrageous aging. Colette endured. And she wrote & wrote & wrote. Whenever I feel really depressed, I think of her & keep going.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)