Home / Quotes / Quote by Cynthia Ozick

Quote by Cynthia Ozick

“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.”

Quote by Cynthia Ozick

Author

Cynthia Ozick is an accomplished American writer, born on April 17, 1928. Her works are renowned for their profound thoughtfulness and unique literary style, often focusing on moral and philosophical issues. more

You May Also Like

“I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be a crank to keep going, but on the other hand, what else would you do with the rest of your life? You gotta do something.”

Thinking Hands Keep Going Minors Oblivion Rest Of Your Life Fanatics Fanaticism Crank

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, dont confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.”

Ifs Writing Firsts May Self Reading Born Fiction Class Teach Reader Wide Urges Self Knowledge Fiction Writers Reading Fiction

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.”

Stills Gone Saws England Distance Ruins Continents Atrocities Pilgrimage Blitz

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide people into two classes: the Irksome and the Non-Irksome without regard to sex. Yes and there are the Medium Irksome and the Rare Irksome.”

People Thinking Two Sex Quality Class Subjects Regard Feminist Mediums Feminine Divides Masculine

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.”

Feels Writing Half Overcoming Revulsion

Author:Flannery O'Connor

“It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.”

Thinking World Important Cities Nice Example Around The World Very Nice Good Examples Scots Glasgow

Author:Zaha Hadid

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.”

“There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.”

People Should Country Able Immigration Illegal Illegal Immigration

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.”

Persons Reason Better Person

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.”

People Reason Written Percent

Author:Linda Ronstadt