Italo Calvino Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985
Birthday: October 15
Death: September 19
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. 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. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.
source: "Six Memos For This Millennium" by Sam Cooney, therumpus.net. November 22, 2010. 
topic: Writing, Cities, People, Subtraction, Heavenly Bodies
