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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on 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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Music has no limits of a life-span.
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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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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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