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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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