I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
NADINE GORDIMERNothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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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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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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