Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozickis an American short story writer, novelist, and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 April 1928
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
ambition desire purpose
To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.
book people literature
a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.
civilization belief produce
Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.
death grief mourn
Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.
death
Death persecutes before it executes.
piano keys faces
very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.
happiness trouble
The trouble with happiness is that it never notices itself.
history judgment happened
History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.
admiration fame ignite
Awe consumes any brand that ignites it ...
max classic comic
Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.
real self apprenticeship
Real apprenticeship is ultimately always to the self.
running educational play
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.
thinking hands rest-of-your-life
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.
reading writing self
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.