Italo Calvino Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985
Birthday: October 15
Death: September 19
In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single, homogenous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language.
source: "Six Memos for the Next Millennium". Book by Italo Calvino. Translated by Patrick Creagh, 1996.
topic: Running, Communication, Differences, Written Language, Sharpening
