Nadine Gordimer
Novelist
1923-11-20
Quotes by Nadine Gordimer
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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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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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
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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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The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
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Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
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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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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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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
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There's no tiling moral about beauty.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative... .
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
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