You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
Nadine GordimerIn various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
Nadine GordimerFrom Ernest Hemingway's stories I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
Nadine GordimerI believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
Nadine Gordimer