Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
NADINE GORDIMERSeptember 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.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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I couldn’t be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa.
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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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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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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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