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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

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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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Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
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Mostly I’m interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
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Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
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What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there’s another force from inside battling to make us something else.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that…you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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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 creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
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it’s impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren’t taken into account because no one knows what they will be.
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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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I’m forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
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The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
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The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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From Ernest Hemingway’s stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
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The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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