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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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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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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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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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Certain Circumstance Go Individual Object Out Turn Various Vital
I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Alone Hear Keenness One Review
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Come Confidence Measure Mood
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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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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