Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Positivity, Effort, Miracle

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, Writing, Literature

  "Voices for Life" edited by Dom Moraes, 1975.

• 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

  Liars, Lying, Writing

  "TIME" Magazine, July 18, 1983.

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Dick Cavett Show", PBS, July 17, 1978.

• We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Believe, Choices, Literature

  "Isaac Singer's Promised City". "City Journal", Summer 1997.

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Unique, Greatness

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

• A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Stories, Literature

• Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Love, Life, Men

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

• 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

  Life, Writing, Men

• It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Names, Gossip

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

• 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

  Life, War, Silly

• 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

  Power, Skulls, Literature

• The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Character, Analysis, Literature

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

• If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Two, Literature, Might

  "The New York Times", June 30, 1985.

• 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

• When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Mean, Curiosity

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Art, Age, Novelists

  Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah”

• How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Blood, Justice, Literature

• Literature is the memory of humanity.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Memories, Humanity, Literature

• 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

• Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Would Be, Stories, Literature

• I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Religious, Philosophical, Perspective

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

• In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Law, Differences, Literature

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

• It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Literature, Facts, Hebrew

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

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