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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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