I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
NADINE GORDIMERI never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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If 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.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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