The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
NADINE GORDIMERDisaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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