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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

Nadine Gordimer

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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Another Gift Give One People Thing Wrap
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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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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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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