Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
NADINE GORDIMERI couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
NADINE GORDIMER