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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

Nadine Gordimer

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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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When 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.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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