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I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Italo Calvino

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The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written.

Italo Calvino

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One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Michael Cunningham

Stichwörter: life writing on-fiction

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Jack London

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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Dylan Thomas

Stichwörter: art poetry writing

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

Stichwörter: poetry writing