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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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