Books don't need batteries. - 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
They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time. - Nadine Gordimer
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction. - Nadine Gordimer
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. - Nadine Gordimer
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else. - Nadine Gordimer