Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

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

Life, Kindness, Everything

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Yourself, Else, Betray

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Done, Try, Often

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

Religion, Doubt, Religious

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Environmental, Health, Become

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

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

Art, Find, Greatness

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

Art, Between, Vision

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

Love, Sometimes, Stronger

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

Great, Knowledge, Ocean

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

Good, Story, Writer

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

Life, Means, Story

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

Great, Wonderful, Effort

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

Thankful, God, Idea

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

Character, Human, Highest

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

Liar, Call, Writer

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

Good, Bad, Saying

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

Life, War, Death

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

Person, Actions, Thinks

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Children, Parents, Serious

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

Nature, Eternity, Creates

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

Two, Might, Written

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

Good, Bad, Saying

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

Single, Writing, Thinking

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Keep, Conscience, England

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 14, 1904

Died: July 24, 1991

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