when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is making sense of life.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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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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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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