Quotes

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

There is great treasure 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

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say that appears on the paper.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— 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 must believe in free will. We have no choice.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When it becomes too intellectual—when it begins to ignore passions, the emotions—it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

— 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