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

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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 you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer