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Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.

Life, Him, Write

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Good, You, Saying

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Doubt, Thinkers, Part

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

Never, Eternity, Us

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Knowledge, Great, Ocean

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste basket is the writer’s best friend.

Best, Best Friend, Friend

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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.

Life, Death, Silly

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.

writers, writing

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

writers, writing

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste basket is a writer’s best friend.

writers, writing

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.

realistic, expectations