In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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