Quotes for All
Don’t wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in … Read more
Besides, everywhere, life is getting longer, marriages fall apart, divorce is a reality that happens even where the law doesn’t sanction it. It remains the tradition that women are trusted to take care of the children. Dacia Maraini
I try to cultivate friendships, because they are great assets. And I tend to make them last over time. Nevertheless sometimes they end mysteriously and you don’t really know for what reason. Just like loves.= Dacia Maraini
Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence. Dacia Maraini
Adults don’t know how to respect and really love their young ones. Often love is confused with possession. You say this is my about your child, without taking into account that you’re dealing with a real person with his/her own personality, rights, and autonomy, even when very young. Dacia Maraini
For my whole life I have dedicated myself to those who have been subjected to injustice. I’ve conducted investigations and written in newspapers about the homeless, the incarcerated, the sick excluded from care, about child labor, child exploitation, etc. Dacia Maraini
Success is something you should never take into consideration: if you follow it it’ll elude you. It’s important to really love your work as a writer, to read loads to the point where you can recognise blindfolded, hearing them read, the writers of yesterday and today. It’s important to write every day, for hours. To … Read more
A writer is first and foremost a witness of her time. She must tell the truth, not take a political position. But then the truth that she discovers is profoundly political. Dacia Maraini
A painter’s hand has a thirst for thieving, it steals from heaven and makes a gift to the memories of men, it feigns eternity and it delights in this pretence almost as if it had created rules of its own, more durable and more profoundly true. Dacia Maraini
In a novel there’s not much autobiography. There are characters in transit. Naturally, I can project something of my experiences onto the characters, but they have their own autonomy, a personality that is often a mystery to me. Dacia Maraini