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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.

Nadine Gordimer

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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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