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.
ELENA FERRANTEI had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
More Elena Ferrante Quotes
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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
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The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
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It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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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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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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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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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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I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
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Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.
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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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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
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