More from Isaac Bashevis Singer

  1. We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
  2. If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
  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. I started to 'write' even before I knew the alphabet. I would dip a pen in ink and scribble. I also liked to draw - horses, houses, dogs. T…
  5. The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a …
  6. 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. …
  7. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him…
  8. Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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