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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Answer Other Recognize Yourself
People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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