Nadine Gordimer

“Books don't need batteries.”

“There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.”

“The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.”

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

“Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.”

“The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”