Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
NADINE GORDIMERExile 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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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 making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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