"I had the idea in my twenties that……" — Cynthia Ozick
"I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did."
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62 Quotes by Cynthia Ozick
Cynthia Ozick has 62 quotes on this site.
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It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
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To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
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Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
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The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
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To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a…
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Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull…
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The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
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The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
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Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk…
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I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This…
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More Bellow Quotes
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one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and…
— Sufjan Stevens
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans,…
— Virginia Woolf
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Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true.…
— Stewart O'Nan
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Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
— Leslie Fiedler
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Where do you put a form? It will move all around, bellow out and shrink, and sometimes it winds up…
— Philip Guston
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He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
— Charles Peguy
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There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it,…
— Frank McCourt
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Among contemporaries, I hugely admire Alice Munro, our Chekhov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and John Updike, American masters all. I…
— Cynthia Ozick
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I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a…
— George Grosz
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The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading.
— Leslie Fiedler
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Theres a time for us all, some just shorten their length. Death shall come, the dead shall go, bury me…
— Racheal Deanna Holt
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Action trumps depression. Confronted with a situation in which our feelings of powerlessness are more than just feelings, we choose…
— Unknown Author
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