Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
Nadine GordimerAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist
- Nationality: south african
- Born: November 20, 1923
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Well, I'm not sure the New York Times was consciously trying to trivialise me, but the effect of it is to put everything in the same category as the gossip you read in the magazines you pick up at supermarket counters. I was asked, for example, why I thought there were so many euphemisms for genitalia. It's not a serious question. Whatever the purpose of such a tone is, the effect is to make it appear that anyone who departs from orthodox political doctrine is in some ways laughable.
Noam Chomsky