Writing is making sense of life.
NADINE GORDIMERMy answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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I 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.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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 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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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