Quotes by : Cynthia Ozick

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.....

When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the....

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if....

It had always been my habit-- privately I felt it to be an ecstasy-- to enter, as into a mysterious vault,....

Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d....

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination....

After a certain number of years our faces become our biographies.

Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that....