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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/the-rules-say-that-to-tell-a-story-you-need-first-of-all-a-measuring/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

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## More by Elena Ferrante

> [The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/the-circle-of-an-empty-day-is-brutal-and-at-night-it-tightens-around/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“Quanto a mim, várias vezes ao dia me acontece de gostar de alguém. Você não? Durante pouco tempo, depois passa.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/quanto-a-mim-v-rias-vezes-ao-dia-me-acontece-de-gostar-de-algu-m-voc/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“Svakog dana sam sebi ponavljala: to sam što sam, i nema mi druge nego da se s tim pomirim; takva sam rođena, u ovom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/svakog-dana-sam-sebi-ponavljala-to-sam-to-sam-i-nema-mi-druge-nego-da/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“We have too much stuff inside and it swells us, breaks us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/we-have-too-much-stuff-inside-and-it-swells-us-breaks-us/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“To be born in that city is useful for only one thing: to have always known, almost instinctively, what today, with endless fine distinctions,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/to-be-born-in-that-city-is-useful-for-only-one-thing-to-have-always/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/as-a-girl-twelve-thirteen-years-old-i-was-absolutely-certain-that-a/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/religion-will-disappear-from-men-s-consciousness-when-finally-we-have/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [Elena Ferrante is the author of several novels. There is nothing mysterious about her, given how she manifests herself - perhaps even too much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/elena-ferrante-is-the-author-of-several-novels-there-is-nothing/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [Women, in all fields - whether mothers or not - still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/women-in-all-fields-whether-mothers-or-not-still-encounter-an/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“Once, she closed the book abruptly and said with annoyance, "That's enough." "Why?" "Because I've had it, it's always the same story: inside something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/once-she-closed-the-book-abruptly-and-said-with-annoyance-that-s/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“She became transparent skin over bones, her eyes drowning in violet wells, her hands damp spider webs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/she-became-transparent-skin-over-bones-her-eyes-drowning-in-violet/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“When you haven’t been in the world long, it’s hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/when-you-haven-t-been-in-the-world-long-it-s-hard-to-comprehend-what/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“As long as one writes only for oneself, writing is a free act by means of which, to use an oxymoron, one secretly opens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/as-long-as-one-writes-only-for-oneself-writing-is-a-free-act-by-means/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [“We had the same sensitivity to beautiful things, the same need to enjoy them, the same need to search for the right words to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/we-had-the-same-sensitivity-to-beautiful-things-the-same-need-to/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

> [Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elena-ferrante/writers-because-they-write-are-condemned-never-to-be-readers-of-their/)

[Elena Ferrante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elena-ferrante/)

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