Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
NADINE GORDIMERWhen I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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