If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
NADINE GORDIMERIf I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
NADINE GORDIMERCertainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
NADINE GORDIMERThe tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
NADINE GORDIMERIt was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
NADINE GORDIMERDisaster is private, in its way, as love is.
NADINE GORDIMERPower is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
NADINE GORDIMERYou can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
NADINE GORDIMERThe truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMERI cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
NADINE GORDIMERA child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMERwhen it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
NADINE GORDIMERI’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
NADINE GORDIMERArt defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
NADINE GORDIMERIf you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
NADINE GORDIMERCan 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.
NADINE GORDIMERThe caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
NADINE GORDIMER