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South African writers on writing
Joanne Hichens
The way the wind blows …
There are nights in the sea-side suburb of Muizenberg when you know things ‘out there’ are going haywire, when the wind - the southeaster - slaps the palms against the garage roof and the gate repeatedly shudders in its frame, when a
Tracy Engelbrecht
So, what is it then, this writing thing? As a child it was about gold stars and finding something that I knew I could do, some way to speak for all the times that my tongue refused to work. It was about watching the words march / wriggle / clang into place on the page, seeing them fit, and wonderin
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David Chislett
Writing is something that has always come very naturally to me. So much so that for many years I certainly undervalued my own skills and could never understand why some people just couldn’t seem to express themselves with the written word.
Truth is I am not sure
Colleen Higgs
More or less writing
In my early twenties after reading the first two of Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographies, I knew I wanted the life of a writer. I have managed very well. I think the two salient points I picked up from that early reading was how worldly it seemed to
Aryan Kaganof
But what is called writing?
Who is called to write it?
And why?
I knew I was a writer before I could read.
It was as simple as that.
But I've never known what to write about.
I have no themes.
Writers with big themes bore me.
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