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 solitude madness
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
book writing different
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.
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.
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
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.