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
figments secular jew
The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
abuse rotten culture
Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.
sorrow shapes way
We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.
class america alive
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.
communication yelling speech
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
spring reality impossible
Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible.
real wish divorced
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.
listening thrones ifs
To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.
freedom gun men
Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?
writing order obsession
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
cousin uncles book
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?
giving justice answers
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
life life-is
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
animal careers use
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.