I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
NADINE GORDIMERit’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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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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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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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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