Quotes by Cynthia Ozick - Page 2

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.
Cynthia Ozick / Writer
Eggs
Fanaticism
Intelligent
Magazines
Altar
Basket
Regretted
Reviewing
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When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.
Cynthia Ozick / Writer
Ignored
Temperament
Aspects
Dismissed
George
Henry
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I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.
Cynthia Ozick / Writer
Alive
Burning
Candle
Development
Grows
Invention
Our Lives
Sun
According
Author
Bennett
Brief
Certainly
Simply
Don Quixote
Elizabeth
Fictional
Outlive
Quixote
Sharp
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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?
Cynthia Ozick / Writer
Uncles
Book
Cousin
Writing
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