• 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: 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 (1996). “A Cynthia Ozick Reader”, p.305, Indiana University Press