Cynthia Ozick Quotes About Reading
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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.
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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
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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.
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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.
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