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Time at length becomes justice.

Cynthia Ozick

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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Time
Length
Becomes
Justice

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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.
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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.
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I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.
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I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.
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I can't claim to be disenchanted with the current state of fiction because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.
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The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.
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The ordinary is the divine.
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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
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Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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... woman is frequently praised as the more creative sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.
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To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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