Quotes by : Nadine Gordimer

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the....

The creative act is not pure.

I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever....

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.