More from Isaac Bashevis Singer

  1. For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
  2. How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves …
  3. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
  4. I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
  5. A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surprises.
  6. If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
  7. A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
  8. It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning real …

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