Italo Calvino Kept Calling Me

The “idea” isn’t a finished product with identifiable boundaries that one moment sprung into being—one of the reasons artists so hate the interview question, “So what was your inspiration for this?” Any idea is actually an unstable, shifting intersection between myself and whatever I was encountering. By extension, thought doesn’t occur somehow ins

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Italo Calvino on reading as imagination https://t.co/zD8gaORWTf