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.
Nadine GordimerIn a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.
Nadine GordimerThe creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
Nadine Gordimer