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Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.
Cynthia Ozick
Death persecutes before it executes.
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In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.
Cynthia Ozick
Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.
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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.
Cynthia Ozick
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
Cynthia Ozick
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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Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.
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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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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 secular Jew is a figment when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
Cynthia Ozick
In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
Cynthia Ozick
The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
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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.
Cynthia Ozick
Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.
Cynthia Ozick
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
Cynthia Ozick
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.
Cynthia Ozick
literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.
Cynthia Ozick
Time heals all things but one: Time.
Cynthia Ozick
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Cynthia Ozick