Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
NADINE GORDIMERAs writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
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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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Writing is making sense of life.
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Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
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Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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in writing, sex doesn’t matter; it’s the writing that matters.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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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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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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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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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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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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