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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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