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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
NADINE GORDIMER

Autobiography Jealous Much never Privacy Shall That

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