176 Quotes by Nadine Gordimer

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.

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

If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.

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

I cannot live with someone who can’t live without me.

It’s absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It’s a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.

There’s no tiling moral about beauty.