“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
“In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.” LyingReadingReaderPromiseNovelistsCompact Book:A Cynthia Ozick reader Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader
“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
“Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk - a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.” BookFallReadingLanguageTelevisionRiversBook ReadingSpills Book:A Cynthia Ozick reader Source: A Cynthia Ozick reader
