Isaac Bashevis Singer
Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
— 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
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
— 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
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer