Nadine Gordimer said this quote

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

~ Nadine Gordimer

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

~ Nadine Gordimer

They say (she had read somewhere) that no one ever disappears, up in the atmosphere, stratosphere, whatever you call space--atoms infinitely minute, beyond conception of existence, are up there forever, from the whole world, from all time.

~ Nadine Gordimer

I don't cry. Unfortunately, I seem rather short of tears, so my sorrows have to stay inside me.

~ Nadine Gordimer