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Elena Ferrante

Incidental Inventions

  • Gabriela Martínez Reynahas quoted3 years ago
    I thought that when one writes, it makes no sense to be contained, to censor oneself, and as a result I wrote mostly—maybe only—about what I would have preferred to be silent about, resorting among other things to a vocabulary that I would never have dared to use in speaking.
  • Gabriela Martínez Reynahas quoted3 years ago
    I had to stop writing my diary and channel the desire to tell the truth—my most unutterable truths—into an invented story.
  • Gabriela Martínez Reynahas quoted3 years ago
    We always look at first times with excessive indulgence. Even if by their nature they’re founded on inexperience, and so as a rule are not very successful, we recall them with sympathy, with regret.
  • Gabriela Martínez Reynahas quoted3 years ago
    It’s why I said, that’s enough of first times. What we were at the beginning is only a vague patch of colour contemplated from the edge of what we have become.
  • Gabriela Martínez Reynahas quoted3 years ago
    I’m used to looking on my own for a story, characters, a logic, putting one word after another, often laboriously, eliminating a lot; what I find at the end—assuming that I find something—is surprising, especially to me.
  • Gabriela Martínez Reynahas quoted3 years ago
    For these pieces I rummaged through memory in search of small illustrative experiences; impulsively drew on convictions formed by books read many years ago, then cast off and recovered, thanks to other readings; pursued sudden intuitions inspired by that same need to write; came to abrupt conclusions because the space had been used up.
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