“In devising a story, therefore, the first thing that comes to my mind is an image that for some reason strikes me as charged with meaning, even if I cannot formulate this meaning in discursive or conceptual terms. As soon as the image has become sufficiently clear in my mind, I set about developing it into a story; or better yet, it is the images themselves that develop with their own implicit potentialities, the story that they carry within them.”
(page 89)
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millenium. Trans. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1988.
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