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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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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