Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozickis an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
proudest trust
I am proudest of that first novel, 'Trust,' of anything I have written. I don't think I've had such intense energy since.
flows middle three
I find that writing comes from the three fingers. The thumb, the index and middle fingers. It flows out of the pen. Real writing comes out of your hand, for me, anyway,
numbers years age
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
sacred
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.
beast brother brought encounter feeling fiction home included james library life public science somewhat swept
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.