Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Moving, Fighting, Fate

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

• 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”

• When a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy from God? It's unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Animal, Voice

  Preface to "Food for the Spirit: Vegetarianism and the World Religions" by Steven Rosen, New York: Bala Books, 1987.

• Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why then should man expect mercy from God? It is
  unfair to expect something that you are not willing to give.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Men, Vegetarianism, Giving

• 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.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Patience, Giving, Feelings

• 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.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Giving Up, Ghetto, Self

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

• The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Uplifting, Art, Bored

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

• As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Giving, Why Not

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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