"I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need solitude, and seek alienation of a kind every day of their working lives. (And remember, they are not even aware when and when not they are working.) ... The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer."

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Source : Nadine Gordimer (1983). “Selected Stories”, Viking Press

Nadine Gordimer

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