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?
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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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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If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
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The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
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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 don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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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?
