Education Quote by Nadine Gordimer

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you…

— Paul Simon

“I feel so lucky at being able to do what I love. Writing has proved to be a fascinating journey – without maps and…

— Elizabeth Buchan

“you'll learn more from falling than from being saved from falling”

— deborah cooke

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the…

— Jacques Derrida

“I heard my old friend Clem’s voice coming back to me through the dimness of thirty years: “I see you coming here trying to…

— Audre Lorde

Writing poetry, which for me was then saying how I felt about this and that, didn't help me to understand the world I lived…

— Grace Paley

“In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.”

— Tim Butcher

Writing gave me the world.

— Chuck Palahniuk

My mind immediately shot to South Africa the moment I sat down to think what I was going to write, what I was going…

— Wole Soyinka

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of…

— Hakeem Olajuwon

“This is what writing does to you: it makes you put everything under a microscope of metaphors and similes, surrounded by memories and reminiscences.…

— Ibraheem Hamdi

When you fall on something you have not unexpected.. trying to rise from where you fall.. because every time you fall, without you realizing…

— Mohamad Idrus