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Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Any Look Matter Profound Proof Shakespeare Small Sonnet Space Subject Subject Matter

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Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Airport Alone Along Cherokee Cities County Early Flew Good Landing Many Mountains New New York Rocky Rocky Mountains Times Towns Way Westward York 1990S

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After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: After Become Biographies Certain Faces Number Our Years

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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Books Chance Chances Life Next Offers Second Second Chance Still Thought Work Written

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All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Another Being Course Human Human Being Knows Like Presumption Since Writing

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Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: America Dreamed Establishing Hebrew Language National National Language Once Out Past Piety Puritans

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My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Away Beast Brother Brought Encounter Feeling Fiction First Had Home Included James Jungle Library Life Me My Life Public Public Library Science Science Fiction Seventeen Somewhat Story Strange Swept Which

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People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question. 'Jewish' is a category of civilization, culture, and intellect, and 'woman' is a category of anatomy and physiology.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Anatomy Ask Category Civilization Culture How Intellect Jewish Often People Phrase Physiology Question Reject Woman Writer I Can

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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, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Born Classes Confine Every Fiction Fiction Writer First Inevitably May Read Reader Reading Self-Knowledge Stimulate Teach Urge Wide Will Write Writer Writing You Yourself

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Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: About Africa Burying Business Death Else Go Least Love Marrying Novelists Out People Ponder Sea Send Stillness Strenuous Them Town

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1928

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