I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
NADINE GORDIMERAny 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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