Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views. (Nadine Gordimer)

Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

Nadine Gordimer

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