The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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What 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.
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Books dont need batteries
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