Quotes from Nadine Gordimer
Music has no limits of a life-span.
— Nadine Gordimer
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
— Nadine Gordimer
The facts are always less than what really happened.
— Nadine Gordimer
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
— Nadine Gordimer
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
— Nadine Gordimer
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
— Nadine Gordimer
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
— Nadine Gordimer
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
— Nadine Gordimer
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
— Nadine Gordimer
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
— Nadine Gordimer
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
— Nadine Gordimer
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
— Nadine Gordimer