Mankind Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer Download Open image “A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mankind Scholar Writing
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not,… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world. That means trying to understand, take in, connect with, what wickedness human… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
A writer is basically someone who shares his or her value or vision of the world. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great… — Erskine Caldwell Copy Share Image
To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to care. You do not have to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even… — Thornton Wilder 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins. — 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
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 Image
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind. — Horace Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Because I have confidence in the power of truth, and of the spirit, I have confidence in the future of mankind. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse… — Mike Pesca Copy Share Image
My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
