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
creativity creative demand
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
literature may censorship
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
writing character thinking
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
contempt humans ifs
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
mood
One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
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.
spoken written
Too much will be speculated about him, too much spoken about him, too much written about him,
alter measure passing time
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter
beauty truth
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.