Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes (25 quotations)
1. A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surprises. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
2. 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
3. Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
4. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
5. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
6. I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
7. I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
8. If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
9. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
10. Life is God's novel. Let him write it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
11. Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
12. Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
13. People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
14. Take three quarts of duck's milk. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
15. The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
16. The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
17. 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 motions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
18. The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
19. 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
20. We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
21. We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
22. We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
23. What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
24. 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
25. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
2. 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
3. Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
4. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
5. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
6. I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
7. I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
8. If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
9. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
10. Life is God's novel. Let him write it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
11. Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
12. Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
13. People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
14. Take three quarts of duck's milk. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
15. The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
16. The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
17. 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 motions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
18. The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
19. 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
20. We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
21. We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
22. We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
23. What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
24. 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
25. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
