Elena Ferrante Quotes
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
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I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
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A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
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I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.
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I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.
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I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.
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My life is pretty much an open book.
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I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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I expect there will be more private schools.
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I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner.
