I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

ELENA FERRANTE

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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

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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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Even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

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Even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.
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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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Those who write need that “willing suspension of disbelief “, as Coleridge called 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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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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Absolutely Certain Depressed Thirteen Year
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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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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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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Answer Being Contain Publication Themselves
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor.

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Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor.
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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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The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.
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Biological Material
Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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Anonymity Exclusive Let
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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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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The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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