Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did.… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
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. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
“you like to have some cup of tea?-July bent at the doorway and began that day for them as his kind has always done… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share
