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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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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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Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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