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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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