All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
NADINE GORDIMERWritten words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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