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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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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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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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