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Cynthia Ozick Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

Old saws have no teeth.

Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

Cynthia Ozick (2009). “Dictation: A Quartet”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.

Cynthia Ozick (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.278, Indiana University Press

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf