Tag: Elena Ferrante
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‘Beauty of form, at least in my experience, can become an obsession that hides more complex problems—the story doesn’t work, I can’t find the right way, I’ve lost faith in my knowledge of how to tell a story. Then there are times when nothing matters but getting the story down. That is the most joyful…
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‘A plot twist can lose substance simply because I can’t keep it to myself and describe it to a friend. The oral story immediately destroys everything—however remarkable the development I had in mind, from that moment it doesn’t seem worth the trouble of writing down.’ – Elena Ferrante, The Art of Fiction No. 228, The…
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‘Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.’ – Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child
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‘Maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.’ – Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
Roseena Veronika Hussain 