In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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