Gordimer Writer Quotes

#1. The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

Nadine Gordimer

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

Nadine Gordimer

#3. One must see everything.

Raymond Queneau

#4. Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. the bottom line of assurance comes when you stop analyzing and you look to Christ and you look and you look and you look until Christ himself in his glory and his sufficiency by reflex, as it were, awakens a self-forgetful "Yes!" to him.

John Piper

#6. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty. Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

James Weldon Johnson

#7. Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being.

Nadine Gordimer

#8. Soul is a colourless thing. I don't think you have to be a black person to be automatically soulful. I respect Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake; they do what they do. For me, my philosophy has always been 'contribution before competition.'

Maxwell

#9. I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

John Waters

#10. The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Nadine Gordimer

#11. Commit to always being honest, if not with others then with yourself.

Truth Devour

#12. 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.

Nadine Gordimer

#13. Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.

David Boies

#14. I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in habitually searching for the causes and meaning of everything which occurs.

Charles Darwin

#15. A writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Nadine Gordimer

#16. Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.

Abdul Kalam

#18. We have had scarce investment in women ... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

Michelle Bachelet

#19. The danger is in acting on what you believe satisfies the customer. You will inevitably make wrong assumptions. Leadership should not even try to guess at the answers; it should always go to customers in a systematic quest for those answers.

Peter F. Drucker

#20. In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

Nadine Gordimer