Elena Quotes

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!

It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.

My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.

I don't know what happens when you die. I've never been dead. I'm just interested.

There’s nothing more emotional than looking out at an audience and knowing they’re there because they understand.

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing.

I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.

The coaches today should realize that they are, after all, working with children who sometimes have to stand up to physical and moral stresses which not even all grown-ups could bear.

He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

I write in order to belong.

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.

Initially I started writing because I felt like I didn't fit in. I just moved to a new school and I felt quite lonely. I think that's where it all started for me.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.

Sometimes the longest journey we make is the sixteen inches from our heads to our hearts.

I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar.

I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

If you have what you want to say inside, and if you are crying for something that is true inside, it doesn't matter. The camera always sees it.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

No one told me about boys. I had to figure it out myself. The first thing I learned was that sometimes they grow slower than women mentally.

I can hypnotize rabbits.

If I am confirmed, I will commit to show Heller and the principles articulated in it the full measure of respect that is due to all constitution decisions of the court.

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

I'm 36 years old, and I'm growing up. Little by little.

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.

I am the woman who glows in the dark, I'll stay awake forever if I have to.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her