Quotes by : Nadine Gordimer

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for....

You know history better than I do, you've been teaching all your life. Without real opposition you get....

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

Every morning, when people are getting up in the tent, the babies are crying, people are pushing each....

I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between....

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned....

How did I find out? I was deceiving him.