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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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