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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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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts 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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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