Matter Quote by Nadine Gordimer Download Open image “in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.” — Nadine Gordimer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Matter Sex Writing
There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Writing is the flip side of sex - it's good only when it's over. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sex is difficult to write about because it's just not sexy enough. The only way to write about it is not to write much.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
People don't think of writers as sex objects. The women who write to me and suggest that we ought to have sex usually turn… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part. — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Sex is hard to write about because you lose the universal and succumb to the particular. We all have our different favorites. Good sex is impossible to write about. Lawrence and Updike have given it their all, and the result is still uneasy and unsure. It may be that good sex is something fiction just can't do - like dreams.… — Martin Amis Copy Share
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
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence. — Brian Herbert Copy Share Image
My only close-to-game-plan is to follow good writing. If the writing is in TV or if it's in theater or in film, that's it.… — Adam Driver Copy Share Image
I've always been of the idea that is doesn't really matter where you are geographically - with 'Lonerism,' we made half the album in… — Kevin Parker Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
I think everyone will agree that it doesn't matter how we get to an international tournament. We are going to do whatever it takes. — John McGinn Copy Share Image
