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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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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’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Books dont need batteries
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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