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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Perhaps 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.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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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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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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