Quotes of Isaac Bashevis Singer - somelinesforyou

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ What a strange power there is in clothing. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Shoulders are from God, and burdens too. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka") ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Shoulders are from God, and burdens too. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ 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

“ When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ We have to believe in freewill. We've got no choice. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ The waste basket is a writer's best friend. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ We must believe in free will, we have no choice. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ The waste basket is a writer's best friend. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ The waste basket is a writer's best friend. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ 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

“ We must believe in free will, we have no choice. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

“ We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. ”

- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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