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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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