The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
NADINE GORDIMERRebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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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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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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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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