“I publish to be read. It's the only thing that interests me about publication. So I employ all the strategies I know to capture the reader's attention, stimulate curiosity, make the page as dense as possible and as easy as possible to turn. But once I have the reader's attention I feel it is my right to pull it in whichever direction I chooseI don't think the reader should be indulged as a consumer, because he isn't one. Literature that indulges the tastes of the reader is a degraded literature. My goal is to disappoint the usual expecta- tions and inspire new ones.” https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6370/the-art-of-fiction-no-228-elena-ferrante

~Elena Ferrante