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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

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

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

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

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

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