Nadine Gordimer Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Struggle, Black And White, Identity

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.

  Nadine Gordimer

  New York, Writing, Sky

• Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Literature, May, Censorship

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.357, A&C Black

• If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Commitment, Years, Political

  Source: progressive.org

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