Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

Literature

Technology

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

Inspirational

Numbers

Years

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

Educational

Play

Running

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

Alive

America

Class

Death persecutes before it executes.

Death

I can’t claim to be disenchanted “with the current state of fiction” because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

Fiction

Littles

Reading

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail’s secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

Lines

Secret

Writing

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Obsession

Order

Writing

I think about fanaticism – oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

Hands

Rest Of Your Life

Thinking

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be – not to have a ‘career’, but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Animal

Careers

Use

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Abuse

Alive

All Things

Ambition

America

Animal

Balls

Beautiful

Believe

Butterfly

Careers

Causes

Childhood

Children

Civilization

Class

Classic

Comic

Communication

Consciousness

Culture

Death

Discovery

Disease

Divine

Done

Doubt

Dream

Educational

Encounters

Engineering

Eye

Feelings

Feels

Fiction

Figments

First Impression

Firsts

Form

Freedom

Gratitude

Grief

Gun

Hands

Heal

Hurt

Ideas

Illusion

Imagination

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Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

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

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.

Death persecutes before it executes.

I can’t claim to be disenchanted “with the current state of fiction” because I read so little of it. My reading is mostly drawn to history.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail’s secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

I think about fanaticism – oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be – not to have a ‘career’, but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

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