“To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being just as Proust, Radiguet and Fitzgerald did: what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.”
– Italo Calvino, who would’ve been 90 today, on writing – insights culled from 600+ pages of his private letters, a fine addition to our ongoing archive of notable advice on writing. (via explore-blog)
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