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Cynthia Ozick Quotes

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 least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death Picture Quote #1

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 wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination Picture Quote #1

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 and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives Picture Quote #1

I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel Picture Quote #1

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 seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith’s Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards Picture Quote #1

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better Picture Quote #1

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Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words Picture Quote #1

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters Picture Quote #1

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by Picture Quote #1

The engineering is secondary to the vision Picture Quote #1

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination Picture Quote #1

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life Picture Quote #1

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We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude Picture Quote #1

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing Picture Quote #1

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne Picture Quote #1

Time at length becomes justice Picture Quote #1

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies Picture Quote #1

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery Picture Quote #1

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One reason writers write is out of revenge Picture Quote #1

The imagination has resources and intimations we don’t even know about Picture Quote #1

Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief Picture Quote #1

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing Picture Quote #1

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail’s secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar Picture Quote #1

History... isn’t simply what has happened. It’s a judgment on what has happened Picture Quote #1

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In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it Picture Quote #1

I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim Picture Quote #1

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are Picture Quote #1

Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible Picture Quote #1

A. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it Picture Quote #1

Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? Picture Quote #1

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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 least, out of town. Essayists in their stillness ponder love and death. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 wider and more complex than our small subjective selves. One should prod, goad the imagination. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel. (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) 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 seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith’s Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The engineering is secondary to the vision (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) To want to be what one can be is purpose in life (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Time at length becomes justice (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) One reason writers write is out of revenge (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) The imagination has resources and intimations we don’t even know about (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Godlessness invariably produces vulgarity. Civilization is the product of belief (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail’s secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) History... isn’t simply what has happened. It’s a judgment on what has happened (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) I would distinguish between a visitor and a pilgrim: both will come to a place and go away again, but a visitor arrives, a pilgrim is restored. A visitor passes through a place; the place passes through the pilgrim (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Comedy springs from the ludicrous; but the ludicrous is stuck in the muck of reality, resolutely hostile to what is impossible (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) A. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it (Cynthia Ozick Quotes) Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom? (Cynthia Ozick Quotes)

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