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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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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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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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