Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes on Creativity
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
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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.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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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. The Sabbath was an ordeal for me, because it is forbidden to write on that day.
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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
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The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.