« All From Quotes · Nadine Gordimer's Page
From Quotes by Nadine Gordimer
- The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is…
- From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
- 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,…
- All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
- 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…
- 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…
More From Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle