A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. - Cynthia Ozick
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
- Cynthia Ozick
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination - Cynthia Ozick
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. - Cynthia Ozick
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. - Cynthia Ozick
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself. - Cynthia Ozick
Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. - Cynthia Ozick
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
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
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…
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. - Cynthia Ozick
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. - Cynthia Ozick
After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.
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