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.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

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

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....

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be....

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

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

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but....