In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
NADINE GORDIMER
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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Books dont need batteries
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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