Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimerwas a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1923
writing make-sense
Writing is making sense of life.
children differences television
When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.
writing vision individual
All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
writing political purpose
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
fades
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
truly-living humans human-beings
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
writing made whole-life
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
aging passages
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
rats fit enough
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.
truth ending-hunger world-hunger
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
mood
One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
country thinking citizens
I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.
contempt humans ifs
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
diplomats france england
Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.