Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
NADINE GORDIMERWriting is always a voyage of discovery.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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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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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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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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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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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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