Cynthia Ozick Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.305, Indiana University Press

• 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.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Reading, Writing, Self

• In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Lying, Reading, Promise

  Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.311, Indiana University Press

• 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.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Reading, Fiction, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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