Quotes by : Cynthia Ozick

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

Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.

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....

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from....

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

The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing!....

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

A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes....