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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Books dont need batteries
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