Cynthia Ozick
American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Above all, a book is a riverbank for the river of language. Language without the riverbank is only television talk — a free fall, a loose splash, a spill.
—Cynthia Ozick, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright, Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character, 1996
Posted on July 26, 2000 at 3:18 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said—the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
—Cynthia Ozick, American novelist, essayist, critic, and playwright, Writers at Work
Posted on January 8, 2002 at 11:02 AM
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