If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Cynthia Ozick
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More Quotes By Cynthia Ozick
  1. If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

  2. Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.

  3. Lie, illusion, deception, she said--was that it truly, the universal language we all speak?

  4. 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...

  5. The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.

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