I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic – if we can call it that – between high and low. Maybe it’s because I was not born or brought up in affluence.
ELENA FERRANTEI didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
More Elena Ferrante Quotes
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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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The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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Those who write need that “willing suspension of disbelief “, as Coleridge called it.
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Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.
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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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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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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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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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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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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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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 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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The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.
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