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.
NADINE GORDIMERThere is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
More Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
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Writing is making sense of life.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
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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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when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
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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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Books dont need batteries
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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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Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
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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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One can’t measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
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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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Sentiment is for those who don’t know what to do next.
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