in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
NADINE GORDIMERI couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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