There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t – it just keeps you from enjoying it. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking or his writing. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is – full of surprises. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
