Patrizia Rinaldi

"I work and live in Naples. In the last few years all I have been doing is writing. Before, I used to write and study. I wrote and learnt, wrote and graduated in Philosophy, wrote and took several specialisation courses in Teaching, wrote and fell ill, wrote and recovered, wrote and taught, wrote and had two children, wrote and specialised in playwriting. I have been always reading while at the same time writing: so wildly, sweetly, incessantly, counting the pages to divide them, crying, laughing, giving it up, loving - and forgetting, remembering, running away, coming back. Sometimes I wrote and lost pieces, other times I wrote and found them. Then I happened to write and make friends, to write and lose them. I often write and make fun of myself, I write and start all over again because I do not like what I wrote, or else I write and say, 'Wow, nice, doesn't even look like it was me who did it.' In short, I write and live. That's all."