Author: Nadine Gordimer

Quotes

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

- Nadine Gordimer

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

- Nadine Gordimer

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

- Nadine Gordimer

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.

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

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

- Nadine Gordimer

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

- Nadine Gordimer

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

- Nadine Gordimer

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.

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

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