Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer

20-Nov-1923


South Africa


Political activist

QUOTES BY Nadine Gordimer


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

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

Books don't need batteries.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

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

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self

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