The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Italo Calvino, (Oct 15 1923-1985), Italian journalist, short-story writer, novelist; His whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.