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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Have Ide never Oneself Sincerity
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Attempt Book Consciousness Life One Place Really Time Whole
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without

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