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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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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 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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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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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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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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