Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozickis an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
spring reality impossible
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.
real wish divorced
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
listening thrones ifs
To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
freedom gun men
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?
writing order obsession
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
cousin uncles book
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?
giving justice answers
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
life life-is
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
animal careers use
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.
book fall reading
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.
revenge writing reason
One reason writers write is out of revenge.
imagination resources knows
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.
doubt
What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.
passion feelings matter
Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.