Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
NADINE GORDIMERWhat 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.
NADINE GORDIMERI have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
NADINE GORDIMERFiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERMostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
NADINE GORDIMERRebirth. 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.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
NADINE GORDIMERYour whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
NADINE GORDIMERBooks dont need batteries
NADINE GORDIMERWhen I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
NADINE GORDIMERThe country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
NADINE GORDIMERThere’s no tiling moral about beauty.
NADINE GORDIMERA truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
NADINE GORDIMERKeenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
NADINE GORDIMERSincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMER