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Pithy articulations of an author's need for anonymity. Fragments is, literally, fragments from published interviews and responses to readers. With that said, I find Elana's writing stylistically elegant, captivating, moving, smoldering with passion and poignant observations that compels me to wanting more:

"I have a degree in classical literature. But degrees say little or nothing about what we've truly learned--out of necessity, out of passion. So it happens that what has really formed us cannot, paradoxically, be catalogued."

"It's not I who keep my activity hidden, it's my activity that hides me. I read, reflect, take notes, ponder the writing of others, produce my own, and all this for a period that's always longer than my day. Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze."

"A teacher who doesn't love reading communicates this deficiency even if he presents himself to his students as a passionate reader."

"The body is all we have and it shouldn't be underestimated. The films you've seen are, precisely, literally, a 'giving body' to what is in the writing of the books. I'm convinced, however, that potentially a page has more body than a film. We have to activate all our physical resources as writers and readers to make it function. Writing and reading are great investments of physicality. In writing and reading, in composing signs and deciphering them, there is an involvement of the body that compares only with writing, performing, and listening to music."

"I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that one approaches the book we truly wish to write?"