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

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

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

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.

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

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.

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