Writing is making sense of life.
NADINE GORDIMERIf 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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