Quotes by : Elena Ferrante

Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.

You’re really a good girl, poor you.

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

It's only and always the two of us who are involved, she who wants me to give her what nature and circumstances....

Literary truth is not the truth of the biographer or the reporter, it’s not a police report or a sentence....

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or....

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost....

I simply decided once and for all to liberate myself from the anxiety of notoriety and the urge to be....

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

At the ponds that evening I said to Antonio: "It's always been like that, since we were little: everyone....