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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

Nadine Gordimer

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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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it’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.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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 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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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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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.
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