Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer
Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship.
Nadine Gordimer
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?
Nadine Gordimer
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.