The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
NADINE GORDIMERPerhaps 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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