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Writing Quotes - Page 647

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.

"Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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

Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.

"Edwidge Danticat: The “Create Dangerously” Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. November 23, 2010.