Can you imagine writers influencing things in America? Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place–… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do;… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.” — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
