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Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Implicit Seeing Travel Traveling

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In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

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Topics: Better Choose Cunning Never Obvious Saying Works Yelling

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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Animal Born Career Obvious Straightforward Use Wanted Writer I Was Born

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The engineering is secondary to the vision.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Engineering Secondary Vision

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I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Obsession Order Out Read Write Writing

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I have lost stories and many starts of novels before. Not always as punishment for 'telling,' but more often as a result of something having gone cold and dead because of a hiatus. Telling, you see, is the same as a hiatus. It means you're not doing it.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Always Because Before Cold Dead Doing Gone Having Hiatus Lost Many Means More Novels Often Punishment Result Same See Something Starts Stories Telling You

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I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Article Believed Born Conceived Faith God Never Novel Oh Oh God Write Writing I Was Born

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If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Altar Anything Around Basket Because Been Eggs Ever Fanaticism Going Instead Intelligent Least Literature Magazines Out Putting Regretted Reviewing Running Thing Trying Up Write

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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.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: About Awaits Crank Else Fanatic Fanaticism Going Gotta Hand Keep Keep Going Life Minor Oblivion Other Rest Something Think Would Writers You Your I Think

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I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Fanaticism Live Long Marry Nobody Oh Should Terrific Think Writer Yes You I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1928

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