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As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
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But Explore Fiction Life Live Possibility Present Single Undreamt Way
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one’s reactions, answerable to no one’s views.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Bring Child Fear Hate Hurt Understand
In a certain sense a writer is ‘selected’ by his subject – his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
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Being Certain Consciousness Era Own Select Sense Subject Writer
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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Androgynous Being Come Essential Faculty Writer
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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Citizen Closely Country Much Other Own Part Relate Think Very World
About the joys and the courage, I really don’t know what other people think. I just know that I’ve never left Africa. I’ve lived there all my life. And one of the wonderful things, in spite of all the terrible things that happen in South Africa, is the way people continue to keep their dignity.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Being Between Fully Make Standing Tension Writer
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
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After Change Measure Much Passage Thing Time
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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Bring Chosen Country Fundamental People Sense Well
From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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Character Country From Learn Listen People Person Place Story Unsaid Went
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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Afraid Been Fail Many never Thing
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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Aside Dormer Easier Face Former Humanity Mask Master Put Recognise Slave Underneath
I’m a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can’t see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Await Creativity Outside Responsibility

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