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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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