Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Believe

• Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Writing

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1971). “A Certain Bridge: Isaac Bashevis Singer on Literature and Life”

• The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Country, Book, Years

• When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Book, Men, Stories

• Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Believe, Book

• In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Book, Adults

• The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They were the people of The Book in the truest sense of the word. They knew of no greater joy than the study of man and human relations, which they called Torah, Talmud, Mussar, Cabala.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Book, Ghetto, Men

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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