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Cynthia Ozick Quotes: To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.
         

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists.


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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.



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