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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

Nadine Gordimer

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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more – absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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