Writing is making sense of life.
NADINE GORDIMERPerhaps 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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