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.
NADINE GORDIMERMy answer is: Recognize yourself in others
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Books dont need batteries
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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