Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes & Quotations

Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

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

» The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

» The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

» The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

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

» 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.

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

» Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

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