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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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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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