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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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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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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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Communists are the last optimists.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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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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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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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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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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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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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from different stages of your ability.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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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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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Certainly Close Feel Free Happier People
I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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