I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

— Nadine Gordimer

Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.

— Nadine Gordimer

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

— Nadine Gordimer

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

— Nadine Gordimer

The creative act is not pure.

— Nadine Gordimer

The facts are always less than what really happened.

— Nadine Gordimer

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

— Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty but the hunger for it is.

— Nadine Gordimer

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

— 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