Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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 writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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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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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.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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