Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society. Nadine Gordimer More Quotes by Nadine Gordimer More Quotes From Nadine Gordimer Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag. Nadine Gordimer understanding writing art 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 written from different stages of your ability. Nadine Gordimer different writing book 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 he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer eden creative writing There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. Nadine Gordimer moral sacrifice authority Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship. Nadine Gordimer censorship literature may Disaster is private, in its way, as love is. Nadine Gordimer tragedy love-is way Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. Nadine Gordimer enemy-of-progress power men Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself. Nadine Gordimer sincerity oneself ideas a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people. Nadine Gordimer writing people thinking In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events. Nadine Gordimer events survival different 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 saint miracle suffering Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks. Nadine Gordimer wells civilization people I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that. Nadine Gordimer jealous privacy writing Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life. Nadine Gordimer writing way fall Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. Nadine Gordimer fragments censorship genius Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. Nadine Gordimer disaster may sometimes From Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters. Nadine Gordimer keys stories 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, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it. Nadine Gordimer new-york sky writing 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. Nadine Gordimer sahara eye mind Communists are the last optimists. Nadine Gordimer communist optimist lasts
