As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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.
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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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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind’s eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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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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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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