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NOVELISTS > novelist > Nadine Gordimer
The creative act...
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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.
Source: In The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, ed. Sterling McMurrin, 1985.
-- Nadine Gordimer, (Nov 20 1923-2014), South African novelist; She is noted for her major anti-apartheid themes of exile and alienation in Burger's Daughter, 1979; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1991.