Quotes by : Cynthia Ozick

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

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Traveling is seeing it is the implicit that we travel by.

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

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!....

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?

Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms....

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