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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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 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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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