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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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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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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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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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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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