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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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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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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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The facts are always less than what really happened.
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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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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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September 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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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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I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.
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It’s easier for the former masters to put aside the masks that hid their humanity than for the former slaves to recognise the faces underneath. Or to trust that this is not a new mask these are wearing.
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A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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