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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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 I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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