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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

Nadine Gordimer

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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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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 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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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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