Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
NADINE GORDIMERWell, 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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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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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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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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I never talk about what I’m writing about currently, never. It’s private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
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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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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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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you’ve made sense of one small area.
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If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don’t have to throw the past away.
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The Communist Party is very popular in South Africa, especially among the young people. Never having had a chance to travel, and having suffered so much under capitalism, they still can’t believe that the Russian people themselves have rejected it.
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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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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
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