“Perhaps Lila was right: my book – even though it was having so much success – really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.”

“Perhaps Lila was right: my book – even though it was having so much success – really was bad, and this was because it was well organized, because it was written with obsessive care, because I hadn’t been able to imitate the disjointed, unaesthetic, illogical, shapeless banality of things.”

— Elena Ferrante