It seems to me that more can be found about a writer in any… - Cynthia Ozick

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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!

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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is a Jewish American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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Birth Name: Cynthia Shoshana Ozick

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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.

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

Because she fears the past she distrusts the future — it, too, will turn into the past.

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