Writing is making sense of life.
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.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Books dont need batteries
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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 always a voyage of discovery.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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