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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.

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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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