Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was....

“ Perhaps Lila was right: my book—even though it was having so much success—really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things. ”

Elena Ferrante

From : The Story of the Lost Child