Latest Dacia Maraini Quotes from Interviews

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• Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

  Dacia Maraini

  Falling In Love, Long, Stories

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• I dream of continuing to dream.

  Dacia Maraini

  Dream, Continuing

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

  Dacia Maraini

  Christian, Animal, Rights

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Silence, Isolation

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you.

  Dacia Maraini

  Beach, Pain, Sea

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

  Dacia Maraini

  Depressing, Winter, Snow

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• The future is created through memory.

  Dacia Maraini

  Memories

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

  Dacia Maraini

  Wave, Habit

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

  Dacia Maraini

  Ideas, Liberty, Fiction

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• 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

  Political, Firsts, Telling The Truth

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• 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

  Character, Personality, Mystery

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Character

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.

  Dacia Maraini

  Drinking, Coffee, Writing

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

  Dacia Maraini

  Lasts, Facts, Lifetime

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• 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

  Like Love, Trying, Lasts

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• 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 a local magazine.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Publishing House, Ideas

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

• It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

  Dacia Maraini

  Husband, Betrayal, Love Is

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

• 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 have faith in your imagination and let it wander.

  Dacia Maraini

  Love You, Writing, Yesterday And Today

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

• 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

  Children, Confused, Real

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza,

• Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

  Dacia Maraini

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.threemonkeysonline.com

• One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Unhappy, Gone

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a look at all the peoples in the world, we have to realize that the condition of women is very backward and sometimes very sad, from both the social and psychological points of view.

  Dacia Maraini

  Views, Law, Age

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• There are still countries where women don't enjoy basic rights like the vote or the freedom to study or the freedom of choice in marriage. Every year there are twenty million little girls in Africa who are deprived of their sexuality through brutal genital operations. Basically, there's still much to be done.

  Dacia Maraini

  Girl, Country, Rights

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• 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

  Children, Sick, Care

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

• I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.

  Dacia Maraini

  Injustice, Sensitive, Persons

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org