There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
NADINE GORDIMERThere’s no tiling moral about beauty.
NADINE GORDIMERThere is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
NADINE GORDIMERIn 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.
NADINE GORDIMERCensorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERWhat 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.
NADINE GORDIMERI cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
NADINE GORDIMERFiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERArt defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
NADINE GORDIMERMy answer is: Recognize yourself in others
NADINE GORDIMEREveryone ends up moving alone towards the self
NADINE GORDIMERIt was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
NADINE GORDIMERKeenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
NADINE GORDIMERA desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMERIn 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.
NADINE GORDIMERIf one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
NADINE GORDIMERThe gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
NADINE GORDIMER