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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single 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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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