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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

Nadine Gordimer

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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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