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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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.
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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 it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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