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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.

Nadine Gordimer

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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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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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 function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Censorship Do Literature May Nothing Whatever
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Always Discovery Oyage Writing
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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Always Better Country Feel First Second Stay While Will

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