Nadine Gordimer Quotes & Sayings

16 most famous Nadine Gordimer quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a South African novelist who passed away on 13 July, 2014.

“A desert is a place without expectation.”

“People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.”

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

“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.”

“From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.”

“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.”

“Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.”