Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Books dont need batteries
Writing is making sense of life.
Communists are the last optimists.
Music has no limits of a life-span.
There's no tiling moral about beauty.
A desert is a place without expectation.
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
My answer is: Recognize yourself in others
Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.
Sincerity is never having an idea of oneself.
Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self
Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged.
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
Newspapers are horror happening to other people.
A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
You can't be afraid to do good in case evil results.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
The facts are always less than what really happened.
I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next.
One can't measure how a mood of confidence comes about.
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.
A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
in writing, sex doesn't matter; it's the writing that matters.
Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
As writers, we are exploring the mystery, the mystery of existence.
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
Certainly the people who are close to me are happier. They feel freer.
I'm forty-nine but I could be twenty-five except for my face and my legs.
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.
You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.
The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Ideology demands it. Society exacts it.
Learning to write sent me falling, falling through the surface of the South African way of life.
Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.
Censorship may have to do with literature; but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa