Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
NADINE GORDIMERThe gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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I 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.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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