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Nadine Gordimer
South African
Novelist
About the author
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
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,
South African
Novelist
#History
#Writer
#Act
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Life
#Work
#Writing
#Sense
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Truth
#Beauty
#Hunger
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Time
#Change
#Measure
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Sacrifice
#Authority
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,
South African
Novelist
#Eye
#Mind
The facts are always less than what really happened.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Facts
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Responsibility
#Creativity
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Power
#Innocence
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,
South African
Novelist
#Men
#Progress
#Women
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
A desert is a place without expectation.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Expectation
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#Hurt
#Fear
#Hate
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
Nadine Gordimer,
South African
Novelist
#People