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.

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.

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

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

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

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose