I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer. Cynthia Ozick fanaticismlivelong Change image and share on social
The engineering is secondary to the vision. Cynthia Ozick engineersecondaryvision Change image and share on social
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. Cynthia Ozick obsessionorderread Change image and share on social
I don't agree with the sentiment 'write what you know.'... I think one should write what one doesn't know. The world is bigger and wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination. Cynthia Ozick agreebigcomplex share on social
To be a Jew is an act of the strenuous mind as it stands before the fakeries and lying seductions of the world, saying no and no again as they parade by in all their allure. And to be a writer is to plunge into the parade and become one of the delirious marchers. Cynthia Ozick actalluredelirious share on social
All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. Cynthia Ozick humanpresumptionwrite Change image and share on social
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way. Cynthia Ozick 1990sairportcherokee share on social
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. Cynthia Ozick educationalessayfree share on social
Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible. Cynthia Ozick biblecontemporaryhebrew Change image and share on social
Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I also believe that the voice of Gordon Lish is astoundingly original and sorrowful. Cynthia Ozick admirealiceamerican share on social
