A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is full of surprises. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Take three quarts of duck's milk. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer
There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. -
Isaac Bashevis Singer