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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Nadine Gordimer

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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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