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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.

Nadine Gordimer

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Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.
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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.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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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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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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