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Quotes from Interview with The Paris Review — Cynthia Ozick

born 1928 United States

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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. I no longer think of imagination as a thing to be dreaded.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

It seems to me that more can be found about a writer in any single sentence in a work of fiction, say, than in five or ten full-scale biographies. Or interviews!

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

The insight that the largest, deepest, widest imaginative faculty of all is what you need to be a monotheist teaches me that you simply cannot be a Jew if you repudiate the imagination.

Interview with The Paris Review (1987)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cynthia Ozick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.