Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

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.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

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.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

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.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.