Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things,… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children… Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics… They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
“The rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the rabbi that his eyes were asking, Who… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
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 Copy Share
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
