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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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