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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? 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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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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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You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.
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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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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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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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Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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