Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.
Cynthia OzickIt isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.
Cynthia OzickIn the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it.
Cynthia Ozick... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.
Cynthia Ozick