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Cynthia Ozick

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

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Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

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The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

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One reason writers write is out of revenge.

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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.

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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

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