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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

Nadine Gordimer

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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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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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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 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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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