Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
NADINE GORDIMERSuccess sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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