What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
Cynthia OzickNo 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 OzickTo be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
Cynthia Ozick