Nadine Gordimer is a famous Novelist from South Africa, he/she is 101 years old and still alive, born November 20, 1923.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 15 quotes who is written / told by Nadine.
15 Famous quotes by Nadine Gordimer
"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity"
"A desert is a place without expectation"
"A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings"
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area"
"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped"
"Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter"
"I cannot live with someone who can't live without me"
"From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters"
"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable"
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb"
"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter"
"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand"
"Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is"
"The facts are always less than what really happened"
"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice"
