Nadine Gordimer Quotes

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

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.

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

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

Presence of death standing by makes a sacrament of tenuous relationships.

Books don't need batteries.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

The creative act is not pure.

Music has no limits of a life-span.