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
truly-living humans human-beings
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
flames air needs
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.
writing eden creative
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.
human-nature worst humans
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
power sides innocence
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
writing fiction truthful
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
facts happened
The facts are always less than what really happened.
law white judging
In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.
limits life-span
Music has no limits of a life-span.
beauty moral
There's no tiling moral about beauty.
writing discovery voyages
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
betrayal writing thinking
It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.
eras consciousness certain
In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
writing thinking work-out
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.