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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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