176 Quotes by Nadine Gordimer

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation.

One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.

I don't think I am a citizen of the world; I am very much a citizen of my own country. But my own country is closely related to other parts of the world and influenced by what happens there.

I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.