It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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