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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
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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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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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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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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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