List of Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

We Write Not Only For Children But Also For Their Parents. They, Too, Are Serious Children.

There Must Be A Way For Man To Attain All Possible Pleasures, All The Powers And Knowledge That Nature Can Grant Him, And Still Serve God--a God Who Speaks In Deeds, Not In Words, And Whose Vocabulary Is The Cosmos.

What Nature Creates Has Eternity In It.

What Do These Children Do Without Storybooks?" Naftali Asked. And Reb Zebulun Replied: "they Have To Make Do. Storybooks Aren't Bread. You Can Live Without Them." I Couldn't Live Without Them." Naftali Said.

The Pessimism Of The Creative Person Is Not Decadence But A Mighty Passion For The Redemption Of Man.

The Ghetto Was Not Only A Place Of Refuge For A Persecuted Minority But A Great Experiment In Peace, In Self-discipline And In Humanism. As Such It Still Exists And Refuses To Give Up In Spite Of All The Brutality That Surrounds It. I Was Brought Up Among Those People.

The Genuine Writer Cannot Ignore The Fact That The Family Is Losing Its Spiritual Foundation.

They Still Believe In God, The Family, Angels, Witches, Goblins, Logic, Clarity, Punctuation, And Other Obsolete Stuff.

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.

It Is A Fact That The Classics Of Yiddish Literature Are Also The Classics Of The Modern Hebrew Literature.

Sometimes You Have The Feeling That Some Little Imp Is Standing Behind You And Dictating To You, But He Gives It To You Slowly, Drop By Drop.

The New England Conscience Doesn't Keep You From Doing What You Shouldn't - It Just Keeps You From Enjoying It.