I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
NADINE GORDIMER
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can 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.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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