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“I no longer protect myself from the world I grew up in. Rather, today I try to protect the feelings I have for that world, the emotional space where my desire to write first took hold, and still grows.”

Quote by Elena Ferrante

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Elena Ferrante is a renowned contemporary Italian novelist, known for her unique narrative style and profound character portrayals. Her works cover a wide range of themes, including family, love, power, and social class. Ferrante's novels have received widespread acclaim both in Italy and around the world, despite the mystery surrounding her true identity. more

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“Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.”

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“It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.”

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“My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.”

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“At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.”

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“Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.”

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Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

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