Quotes by : Elena Ferrante

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

The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each....

When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations,....

She wrote, in the last pages, of feeling all the evil of the neighborhood around her. Rather, she wrote....

I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from....

I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was,....

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate....

Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If....

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