Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American-Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist. Read full biography of 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... →
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
The engineering is secondary to the vision.
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
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... →
An article can be timely, topical, engaged in the issues and personalities of the moment; it is likely to be stale within the month. In five years... →
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... →
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included... →
In an essay, you have the outcome in your pocket before you set out on your journey, and very rarely do you make an intellectual or psychological... →
I had the idea in my twenties that a writer could immediately become the late Henry James. Henry James himself had to mature. Even Saul Bellow did.
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
The novelist's intuition for the sacred differs from the translator's interrogation of the sacred.
Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is an American-Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist.