"The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated."

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Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.83, Penguin

Elena Ferrante

#Needs Quotes #Stories Quotes #Calendars Quotes

“Fishing, by its very nature, nourishes the imagination, feeding it with a potent fuel of hope and desire.”
“Everybody wants to be American, it seems; I travel enough to know.”
“After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.”

Source : "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".
“The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.”
“Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.”
“I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.”
“We dream our dreams away.”
“I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.”

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