The facts are always less than what really happened.
NADINE GORDIMERWriters themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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