"If we had to say what writing is,……" — Cynthia Ozick

"If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage."

— Cynthia Ozick

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62 Quotes by Cynthia Ozick

Cynthia Ozick has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a…
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull…
The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk…
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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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