Cynthia Ozick Life Quotations

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology, which included 'The Beast in the Jungle.' It swept me away. I had a strange, somewhat uncanny feeling that it was the story of my life.

I think most of my life I have not felt recognized.

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.