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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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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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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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