To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

- Cynthia Ozick

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

- Cynthia Ozick

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

- Cynthia Ozick

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

- Cynthia Ozick

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

- Cynthia Ozick

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

- Cynthia Ozick

When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for g…

- Cynthia Ozick

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

- Cynthia Ozick

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

- Cynthia Ozick