To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths … - Italo Calvino

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Don't write what you know. Write what you love. That's what will keep you writing.

Italo Calvino

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being. . . what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

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Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.

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