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Cynthia Ozick quotes

American Novelist April 17, 1928

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Cynthia Ozick quote: "James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life."
James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life. Cynthia Ozick
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, sillouettes 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? Cynthia Ozick
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? Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by."
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by. Cynthia Ozick
This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock. Cynthia Ozick
One must avoid ambition in order to write. Otherwise something else is the goal: some kind of power beyond the power of language. And the power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works..."
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "If we had to say what writing is, we would describe it..."
If we had to say what writing is, we would describe it essentially as an act of courage. Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "If I had to say what writing is, we would define it..."
If I had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage. Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "We often take for granted the very things that most deserve..."
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "What we remember from childhood we remember forever -..."
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. Cynthia Ozick
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. Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "The engineering is secondary to the vision."
The engineering is secondary to the vision. Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick quote: "After a certain number of years, our faces become our..."
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. Cynthia Ozick

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