Write Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

History ... isn't simply what has happened. It's a judgment on what has happened.

— Cynthia Ozick

The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.

— Cynthia Ozick

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

— Cynthia Ozick

“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to the Germans…

— Cynthia Ozick

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders…

— Cynthia Ozick

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer…

— Cynthia Ozick

literature is an instrument of a culture, not a summary of it.

— Cynthia Ozick

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you…

— Cynthia Ozick

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…

— Cynthia Ozick

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,…

— Cynthia Ozick

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish…

— Cynthia Ozick

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief.

— Cynthia Ozick

Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not…

— Cynthia Ozick

What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish…

— Cynthia Ozick

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”

— Cynthia Ozick