The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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