Quote #5

I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions: Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

More from Isaac Bashevis Singer

  1. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
  2. The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
  3. I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
  4. A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise: Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
  5. Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
  6. 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…
  7. We must believe in free will - we have no choice.
  8. Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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