Quotes by : Elena Ferrante

You really work in those conditions?”She, irritated by the contact, pulled her arm away, protesting:....

Up or down, it seemed to us that we were always going toward something terrible that had existed before....

I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.

Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer-....

She possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom....

Thus she returned to the theme of ‘before,’ but in a different way than she had at first. She said....

It was during that journey to Via Orazio that I began to be made unhappy by my own alienness. I had grown....

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times,....

I felt squeezed in that vise along with the mass of everyday things and people, and I had a bad taste....