The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
NADINE GORDIMERCertainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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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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I don’t think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
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When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.
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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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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light – and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau – into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.
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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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I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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