I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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