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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Nadine Gordimer

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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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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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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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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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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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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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