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Elena Ferrante (Italian pronunciation: [ˌɛːlena ferˈrante]) is a pseudonymous Italian novelist. Ferrante's books, originally published in Italian, have been translated into many languages. Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels are among her best known works.

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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.

Book, Books, Mean, Questions, Questions And Answers, Stops

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

Writing, Answers, May, Discovered, Written, Finding

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

Disbelief, Needs, Suspension, Willing, Writing

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

Intense, Joy, Pain, Pulse, Skins, Truth

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

Fragments, Hate, People, Together

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.

Creative, Fullness, Mysterious, Perhaps, Too Much, Writing

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.

Affluence, Attention, Conflict, Dialectic, Maybe

Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now I was falling, as in a dream slowly, even as I continued to hold the thermometer in my hand, een as I stood with the soles of my slippers on the floor, even as I felt myself solidly contained by the expectant looks of my children. It was the fault of the torture that my husband had inflicted. But enough, I had to tear the pain from memory, I had to sandpaper away the scratches that were damaging my brain.

Dream, Falling, Husband, Inflicted, Memories, Stood

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

Climbing, Economic, Guilt, Hard, Ladders

As a girl-twelve, thirteen years old-I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Book, Certain, Girl, Hero, Years

Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories. . . The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.

Memories, Ordinary, Reading, Work, Writing

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

Animal, Dark, Invulnerable, Queen, Queens, Serpent

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.

Desire, Emotional, Hold, Space, Write, Writing

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

Believe, Book, Books, Needs, Written

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.

Book, Books, Character, Moments, Unexpectedly, Way

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.

Big, Boss, Passion, Politics, Special

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

Existence, Lie, Lying, Order, Tolerate

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

Essentials, Fictional, Traps, Treatment

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.

Cut, Cutting, Expression, Order, Self, Thing

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

Buildings, Essential, Games, People, Play

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