Elena Ferrante Quotes

• The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

  Elena Ferrante

  Needs, Stories, Calendars

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.83, Penguin

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Hate, People, Together

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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• Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

  Elena Ferrante

  Real, Envy, Feelings

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.304, Penguin

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

  Elena Ferrante

  Believe, Book, Needs

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.206, Penguin

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Pain, Joy, Skins

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.164, Penguin

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• The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

  Elena Ferrante

  Night, Circles, Necks

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.144, Penguin

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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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  Mother, Sacrifice, Numbers

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Class, Ladders, Climbs

  Fuente: www.theguardian.com

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• No elegí el anonimato, sino la ausencia.

  Elena Ferrante

  Absence, Anonymity

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• Sin duda me había ocurrido algo durante la noche. O después de meses de tensión había llegado al borde de algún precipicio y ahora caía, como en un sueño lentamente, aun cuando seguía sosteniendo el termómetro en la mano, aun cuando estaba de pie con las suelas de las zapatillas en el suelo, aun cuando me sentía sólidamente contenida por las miradas expectantes de mis hijos. Era culpa de la tortura que me había infligido mi marido. Pero bastaba, tenía que arrancar el dolor de la memoria, tenía que lijar los arañazos que dañaban mi cerebro.

  Elena Ferrante

  Dream, Children, Pain

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• We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

  Elena Ferrante

  Lying, Order, Existence

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• Soy la reina de picas, soy la avispa que pica, soy la serpiente oscura. Soy el animal invulnerable que atraviesa el fuego y no se quema.

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  Queens, Dark, Animal

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.64, Penguin

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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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  Thinking, Males, Obstacles

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.304, Penguin

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Passion, Boss, Special

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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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. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

  Elena Ferrante

  Juegos, Jugar, Personas

  Elena Ferrante (2015). “The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante Boxed Set”, p.93, Penguin

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Cutting, Self, Expression

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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• El anonimato me permite concentrarme exclusivamente en escribir.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Let Me, Anonymity

  Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Recuerdos, Lectura, Escritura

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• 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.

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  Affluence, Attention, Conflict

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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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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  Writing, Expression, Feelings

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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• De niña - doce, trece años - estaba absolutamente segura de que un buen libro tenía que tener a un hombre como héroe, y eso me deprimía.

  Elena Ferrante

  Girl, Book, Hero

  "Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228". Interview with Sandro and Sandra Ferri, elenaferrante.com. 2015.

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• Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

  Elena Ferrante

  Examination, Moments, Pleasure

  Elena Ferrante (2013). “The Story of a New Name: Neapolitan Novels, Book Two”, p.419, Penguin

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Book, Mean, Questions And Answers

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Climbing, Guilt, Ladders

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Answers, May

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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