Italo Calvino Quotes

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Italo Calvino

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

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I started as a print reporter.

Jim Lehrer

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You don't pay an actor to act. An actor will do that for free because we love to act. You pay an actor to wait.

John Candy

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I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder.

Melissa Rosenberg

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I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Robert Scheer

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I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

Michael Connelly

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Let's just say I didn't get invited to a lot of frat parties.

Amy Chozick

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Having spent almost two decades setting up and running Fortis, our mission of saving and enriching lives is an integral part of my being. Over time, this has inspired me to do more direct service and give back to society a little of what I have received in abundance.

Shivinder Mohan Singh

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Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

Ross Perot

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I don't have too much spare time, but I try to play games as much as possible. I played a little growing up, but I never played any tennis games before.

Lleyton Hewitt

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If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.

Chris DeWolfe

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I'm just trying to be the me that I am and not all of this other crap. I just want to be the family man, and if somehow I can make the money to get my ranch and get the hell away from everybody else, that would be awesome.

Chris Kyle

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You shoulda shot that fella a long time ago. Now he's too rich to kill.

Chill Wills

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