A desert is a place without expectation.
NADINE GORDIMERIt’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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Books dont need batteries
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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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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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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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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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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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