Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
NADINE GORDIMERThe function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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