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.

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• Work is both my living and my pleasure.

  

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• I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

  

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• I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

  

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• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

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• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

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• I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

  

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• The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

  

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• If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.

  

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• In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.

  

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• When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.

  

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• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

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• Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

  

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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
  • Write
  • Pleasure
  • Questions