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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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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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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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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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a writer doesn’t only need the time when he’s actually writing – he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
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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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