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.
NADINE GORDIMERNewspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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