Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Explore a curated collection of 18 quotes by Cynthia Ozick. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall. — Cynthia Ozick
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales — Cynthia Ozick
When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presen — Cynthia Ozick
When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presen — Cynthia Ozick
What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen. — Cynthia Ozick
The engineering is secondary to the vision. — Cynthia Ozick
After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies. — Cynthia Ozick
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to S — Cynthia Ozick
When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presen — Cynthia Ozick
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self. — Cynthia Ozick
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare! — Cynthia Ozick
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offe — Cynthia Ozick
Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by. — Cynthia Ozick
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion — Cynthia Ozick
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burne — Cynthia Ozick
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is — Cynthia Ozick
Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not — Cynthia Ozick
In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were — Cynthia Ozick