A calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
ELENA FERRANTE
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
More Elena Ferrante Quotes
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A calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.
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Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.
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In order not to cut out a large part of one’s private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.
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Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories…The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.
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The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.
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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable.
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The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
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As a girl – twelve, thirteen years old – I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
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I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.
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Women, in all fields – whether mothers or not – still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.
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