Best Cynthia Ozick Sayings
- 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… Airport
- 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… Educational
- An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In… Acquired
- Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa, or at the… Africa
- I think most of my life I have not felt recognized. Felt
- I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and… Attention
- With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life. Certain
- The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote… All
- Literature is for the sake of humanity. Humanity
- 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… Act
- Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey Awesomely
- We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution. Apathy