Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
NADINE GORDIMEROne can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
NADINE GORDIMERWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
NADINE GORDIMERThere’s no tiling moral about beauty.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
NADINE GORDIMERI 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.
NADINE GORDIMERFrom Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
NADINE GORDIMERI have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
NADINE GORDIMERI’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.
NADINE GORDIMERSentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
NADINE GORDIMERAll worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
NADINE GORDIMERI couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
NADINE GORDIMERThe tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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.
NADINE GORDIMERPeople give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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.
NADINE GORDIMER