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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.

Nadine Gordimer

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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Area Life Made Make Perhaps Sense Small Writing
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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