Quotes by J M Coetzee

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of...

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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be...

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If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then...

#J M Coetzee

If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the...

#J M Coetzee

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my...

#J M Coetzee

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not...

#J M Coetzee

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not...

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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the...

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As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that...

#J M Coetzee

We are not by nature cruel.

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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated...

#J M Coetzee