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

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

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• I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.

  

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• My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.

  

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• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

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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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• One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

  

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• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

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• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.

  

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

  

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• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  

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• Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

  

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• I don't think any of us felt like, "Oh, we need to put joke songs on the record." If we found something funny, we would record it, and if we wanted to, we'd put it on the record. It's not really something we spent too much time agonizing over.

  

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• I miss you, but you don't miss me which causes me to move on.

  

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• If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.

  

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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