Famous quotes containing the words calvino and/or wrote:
“When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign—a bad sign mostly for literature.... But it is also a bad sign when they don’t want to hear the word mentioned.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
“If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)