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NOVELISTS > journalist, short-story writer, novelist > Italo Calvino
When politicians and...
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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.
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.