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Quotes from Interview — Natalia Ginzburg

1916–1991 Italy

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Style is not something that can be improvised: one has to construct it, to make it.

Interview (1992)

A journalist recently said in the newspapers that writers should keep their mouths shut as much as possible and I think he was probably right. Better to write than to speak.

Interview (1992)

Every time I sit down to write a book I feel that I have to start from zero, that I have to re-learn how to write.

Interview (1992)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Natalia Ginzburg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.