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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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