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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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