A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

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

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer 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 Quote

The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer 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 Quote

We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer Quote

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer 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 Quote