Famous Quotes / Isaac Bashevis Singer
20 Quotations by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- 1. A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
- 2. Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- 3. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. ...
- 4. If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
- 5. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
- 6. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
- 7. Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
- 8. Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's t ...
- 9. People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing ...
- 10. The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
- 11. The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from ...
- 12. The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
- 13. The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. Whe ...
- 14. The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
- 15. There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasur ...
- 16. There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who ...
- 17. We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice.
- 18. We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
- 19. What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- 20. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.