To subject a dream experience to the logic of the waking state is an extreme test of writing. You can never reproduce a dream exactly. It's a losing battle. But putting into words the truth of a gesture, a feeling, a flow of events, without domesticating it, is also an operation that's not as simple as you might think.


The Paris Review, Issue 212, Spring 2015, Art of Fiction No. 228

Elena Ferrante Quotes

To subject a dream experience to the logic of the waking state is an extreme test of writing. You can never reproduce a dream exactly. It's a losing...

To subject a dream experience to the logic of the waking state is an extreme test of writing. You can never reproduce a dream exactly. It's a losing...

To subject a dream experience to the logic of the waking state is an extreme test of writing. You can never reproduce a dream exactly. It's a losing...

To subject a dream experience to the logic of the waking state is an extreme test of writing. You can never reproduce a dream exactly. It's a losing...