Writing is making sense of life.
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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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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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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