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“Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.”

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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“Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.”

Feels Has Beens Stills Hard Left Deals Behinds Economic Guilt Climbing Ladders Left Behind

Author:Elena Ferrante

“Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much - in her own writing, the place where her creative life transpires in absolute fullness.”

Writing Given Novel Creative Too Much Absolutes Mysterious Fullness Creative Life

Book:Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.”

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“In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.”

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Source: Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey

“I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.”

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Author:Elena Ferrante

“The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.”

People Men States America Found Prayer United Destiny United States Source Tasks Unity Endure Knees Reassurance

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.”

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Author:Elena Ferrante

“I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.”

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Author:Elena Ferrante

“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.”

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Author:Elena Ferrante

“Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.”

Writing Feelings Trouble Figures Expression Speech Carrie Posture Lives Of Others Figures Of Speech

Author:Elena Ferrante