when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
NADINE GORDIMERI 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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