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Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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