If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. Isaac Bashevis Singer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t – it just keeps you from enjoying it. Isaac Bashevis Singer Read Quote
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. Isaac Bashevis Singer Read Quote
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises. Isaac Bashevis Singer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
