“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.” IfsWritingFirstsMaySelfReadingBornFictionClassTeachReaderWideUrgesSelf KnowledgeFiction WritersReading Fiction Author:Cynthia Ozick
“Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.” FirstsDoeIdeasLanguageFictionSeaLiftsFabricSailVacuumsCadenceFins Book:The Din in the Head Source: The Din in the Head
“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.” LittlesI CanStatesReadingFictionClaimsCurrentsDisenchanted Author:Cynthia Ozick
“The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.” WritingArtCharacterFiction Author:Cynthia Ozick
