Elena Ferrante Quotes - Page 2

• The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

  Elena Ferrante

  Essentials, Treatment, Traps

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

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• Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Needs, Disbelief

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

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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.

  Elena Ferrante

  Book, Character, Way

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.3, Penguin

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• I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Emotional, Space

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

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• Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.

  Elena Ferrante

  Writing, Creative, Too Much

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

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