Elena Ferrante Quotes
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
Quotes to Explore
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
Orson Scott Card
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
Bebe Rexha
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Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
Carice van Houten
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If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.
Kailash Satyarthi
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
Maya Angelou
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In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.
Gaston Bachelard
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People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.
Wolf Kahn
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My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
Fernando Botero
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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