A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
NADINE GORDIMERFrom Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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