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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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