Quotes by : Cynthia Ozick

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.

I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't....

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?

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

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

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

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