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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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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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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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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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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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