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.
NADINE GORDIMERYou can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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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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Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
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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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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.
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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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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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