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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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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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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