Elena Ferrante Quotes

Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?

Elena Ferrante

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• The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.

  

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• I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'

  

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• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

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• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

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• My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.

  

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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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• People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.

  

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• Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.

  

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• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

  

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• If you can write it, I can be it.

  

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• I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

  

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• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

  

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• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  

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• Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

  

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• Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

  

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• I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.

  

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• Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

  

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• I design flats like I design heels: They must be seductive, beautiful and comfortable.

  

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• I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.

  

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• You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

  

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• It was a different time for Aspen. So many people did not want the Olympics here. They just didn't think it was the place to have it. People wanted to ski and get away from whatever.

  

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• I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

  

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• Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Write
  • Meaning