Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
art
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
art
The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
best
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
death
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
environmental
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
god
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
god
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
health
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
knowledge
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
life
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
nature
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
religion
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
thankful
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
war
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