Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
NADINE GORDIMERThe truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Writing is making sense of life.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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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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Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.
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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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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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