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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Nadine Gordimer

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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
NADINE GORDIMER

Change Function Life Light Make Mystery Sense Such Time Writer

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