When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share
Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled by disorder,… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
England is a country where people stay exactly as they are. The soul does not receive the slightest jolt. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The course of our lives follows ancient and immutable laws, with an ancient, changeless rhythm. Dreams never come true, and the instant they are… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
“When I write something I usually think it is very important and that I am a very fine writer. I think this happens to… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
