Elena Ferrante Quotes

Places of the imagination are visited in books. Seen in reality they may be hard to recognize; they are disappointing, they might even seem fake.

Elena Ferrante

Quotes to Explore

I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.

Harmony Korine
- Inspiration
- Movies
- Video
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.

Jacob Epstein
- Great
- Family
- America
Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

C. S. Lewis
- Long
- Yourself
- Loneliness
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Van Morrison
- Me
- Famous
- Disappointing
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.

Kabir Bedi
- Up
- Men
- Perfect
I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

J. K. Simmons
- Time
- Book
- Fun