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Cynthia Ozick Quotes

American - Novelist | April 17, 1928 -

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

Become Years Faces Our Biographies

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

Travel Seeing Implicit Traveling

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

Saying Better Choose Never Obvious

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Vision Engineering Secondary

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

Writing Write Obsession Out Order

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.

Cold Doing Result You Lost Dead

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.

God Faith Writing Born Never Write

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.

Literature Trying Intelligent Write

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

Writing Human Human Being Being Like

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.

Life Keep Going Rest Think You Hand

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

Live Think Long You Nobody Yes

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.

Impress Critical Approach Mistaken

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