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Famous Cynthia Ozick Quotes
“Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.”
“What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.”
“If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.”
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
“After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.”
“The engineering is secondary to the vision.”
“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”
“Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.”
“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.”
“The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.”
“I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.”
“In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.”
“Why do men carry guns and build prison camps, when the nurturing earth is made for freedom?”
“To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.”
“In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.”
“Time at length becomes justice.”