Writing is making sense of life.
NADINE GORDIMERPeople give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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