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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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