The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
NADINE GORDIMERIf 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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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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