in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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 truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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