The Guerrilla of the Imagination

I recently came across a quote from Nadine Gordimer on my other blog (theblithebbc). It was rather deep and said something along the lines of writing not being a pure product of the writer's creativity, so much as his/her drive for popularity and readership. I was intrigued, and, in the spirit of the 21st century, Wiki-searched her. Here are a few facts I cyber-unearthed about this fascinating woman:

She was the first South African, and the seventh woman , to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
She has written thirteen novels, over two hundred short stories, a few screenplays, and several volumes of essays.

In a time when her contemporaries were flocking to leave South Africa, this white woman remained to be a voice for the stifled Black writers.

Although she wrote as if censorship did not exist, quite a bit of her work was banned in her native country.

I also found a few fascinating quotes:

"A desert is a place without expectation."
"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this
side of the womb."
"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."
"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."
"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps
you've made sense of one small area."