Nadine Gordimer Quotes

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise.

I write what I like. I don't bother what people think about it.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Write as if your parents are dead.

As a writer, you are free.

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

In this Nation every writer, actor, or producer ... should be free from the censor.

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

The studio is a time when you can do anything that you want to. You have that freedom.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

I'm lucky enough to exist in 2018, where I have a record label that's like, 'Write whatever you want to write.' I don't have to hide anything.

The day I write my last word will be the day that I feel free.

I have the space and liberty to create.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

Because I didn't think anyone would actually listen to my music, I thought I could say whatever I wanted.

I like artists to have some freedom.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields.With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.

I'm not against anything that anybody might want to try to pull off in fiction. Fiction writing has to, at least, always represent a possibility of absolute freedom.

Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or someone else responsible for me. It is really cool as an artist to have that freedom.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

I grew up in a way where I didn't realize there were limitations.I always thought I could speak my mind.

All films are born free and equal.