Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERwhen it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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 have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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