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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.

Nadine Gordimer

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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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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.
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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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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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