In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
NADINE GORDIMER
Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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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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