Writing is making sense of life.
NADINE GORDIMERThe facts are always less than what really happened.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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