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.
NADINE GORDIMERFrom Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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