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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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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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 fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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 country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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