I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.
Nadine Gordimer

A desert is a place without expectation.
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

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
Nadine Gordimer

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.
Nadine Gordimer

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.
Nadine Gordimer