“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 need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.” IfsNeedsMindLongPlayUseRunningImaginationOpinionInformationMovementEducationalGenuineLong RunsEssays Author:Cynthia Ozick
“Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers testifies to a failure of imagination - the capacity to see into unfamiliar lives, motives, feelings - and this failure must, at least in part, be the failure of the teaching of literature in the schools.” CharacterFeelingsSchoolFoundLiteratureImaginationNovelTeachingReaderKingsCapacityMotiveNaiveUnfamiliarLearRaskolnikov Author:Cynthia Ozick
“The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.” FormImaginationDiscoverySpecies Author:Cynthia Ozick
“To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination” InspirationalUseImaginationImagineHighestUnimaginable Author:Cynthia Ozick
“The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.” KnowsImaginationResources Author:Cynthia Ozick
