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.

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

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

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