Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERThe caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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