Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes & Quotations
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is full of surprises. - 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
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. - 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
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual, when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions, it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Take three quarts of duck's milk. - 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
The waste basket is a writer's best friend. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
I don't invent characters because the Almighty has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice. - 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
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. - 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
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Take three quarts of duck's milk. - 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
The waste basket is a writer's best friend. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
I don't invent characters because the Almighty has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice. - Isaac Bashevis Singer