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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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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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