Best Nadine Gordimer Quotes
- In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of… Called
- Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's… Afraid
- Writing is making sense of life. Inspirational
- From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. Character
- September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem,… Chapter
- 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. Committed
- Communists are the last optimists. Communist
- All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued. All
- Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship. All
- Newspapers are horror happening to other people. Happening
- Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to… According
- There's no tiling moral about beauty. Beauty
- 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… Act
- Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into… All
- Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. Appearing
- The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer. Apart
- Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. Convinced
- People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped. Another Things
- Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. Area
- The facts are always less than what really happened. Always Less
- 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… Another Force
- Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self Alone
- Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. Factual
- Books dont need batteries Batteries
- 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. Air