Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
NADINE GORDIMERTime is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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