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Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
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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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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
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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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He who cries, 'What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me,' does not know even that.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts certain ideas and experiences hurt one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
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One reason writers write is out of revenge.
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literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
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There's a paradox in rereading. You read the first time for rediscovery: an encounter with the confirming emotions. But you reread for discovery: you go to the known to figure out the workings of the unknown, the why of the familiar how.
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What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.
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The secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
Cynthia Ozick
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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