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History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
Cynthia Ozick
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Cynthia Ozick
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 17
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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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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 power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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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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What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
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Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
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Old saws have no teeth.
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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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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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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.
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Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.
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Two things remain irretrievable: time and a first impression.
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