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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Away Change Often Support Swept Very
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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Always Beauty Hunger Truth
Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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