More from Isaac Bashevis Singer

  1. Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
  2. 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. …
  3. When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
  4. The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they…
  5. We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
  6. A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise: Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
  7. Take three quarts of duck's milk...
  8. The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

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