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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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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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