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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 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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Do Know Next Sentiment Those To What
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Desert Expectation Place Without
It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Existence Explore Myself Mystery Writer
I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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Can Live Me Not Someone Without
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
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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