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Elena Ferrante Quotes - Page 2

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

Elena Ferrante
Essentials, Treatment, Traps
Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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

Elena Ferrante
Writing, Needs, Disbelief
Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

Elena Ferrante
Book, Character, Way
Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.3, Penguin

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.

Elena Ferrante
Writing, Emotional, Space
"Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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.

Elena Ferrante
Writing, Creative, Too Much
Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.301, Penguin

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