From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
NADINE GORDIMERCertainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
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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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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 facts are always less than what really happened.
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Books dont need batteries
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My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
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All worthwhile writing… comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
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Communists are the last optimists.
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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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There’s no tiling moral about beauty.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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I decided that I wanted nothing to do with South African government television while any of my fellow writers were banned and couldn’t speak publicly.
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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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