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To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Admit Artist Burned Circumstance Even Fabric Hole Hunger Imagination Intent Language Like Modernism Nothing Ordinary Say Take

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Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Accompany Any Approach Critical Felt Imperative Impress Kafka Mistaken Neither Nor Ought Whoever

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The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Differs Interrogation Intuition Novelist Sacred Translator

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Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Bible Contemporary Hebrew Language Longer Neither Poetry

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The Hebrew Bible has long been the world's possession, and those who come to it by any means, through whatever language, are equals in ownership, and may not be denied the intimacy of their spiritual claim.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Any Been Bible Claim Come Denied Equals Hebrew Intimacy Language Long May Means Ownership Possession Spiritual Those Through Whatever Who World

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I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.

~Cynthia Ozick

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I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Am Anything Energy First Had Intense Novel Proudest Since Think Trust Written I Am

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I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: About Absolutely Am Back Essay Essays Far Fiction Fiction Writer Height Movement Phrase Poet Reject Woman Write Writer Wrote I Am

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I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I don't want a jumble of other people's voices or visions getting in my way. Nineteenth-century voices don't create static in that silence.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Contemporary Create Fiction Getting Isolation Kind Like Need Other People Read Sense Silence Static Visions Voices Want Way While Writing

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In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological discovery. But when you write fiction, you don't know where you are going - sometimes down to the last paragraph - and that is the pleasure of it.

~Cynthia Ozick

Topics: Before Discovery Down Essay Fiction Going Intellectual Journey Know Last Make Out Outcome Paragraph Pleasure Pocket Psychological Rarely Set Sometimes Very Where Write You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1928

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