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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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