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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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