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.
NADINE GORDIMERit’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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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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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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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