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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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