Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, Writing, Literature

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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 than appears on the paper.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Expression, Vision

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

• When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Trying, Too Much

• 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”

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

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Stories, Literature

• A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Writing

  "Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

• 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

• A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Passion, Writing, Stories

• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Friendship, Writing, Waste

• Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful:
  
  1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot.
  
  2. The author must feel a passionate urge to write it.
  
  3. He must have the conviction, or at least the illusion, that he is the only one who can handle this particular theme.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Successful, Order

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Raphael Soyer (1981). “Lost in America”, Doubleday Books

• Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Writing, Mind, Vectors

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Pregnancy, Writing

  "Stories for Children". Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1984.

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