Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

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.

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

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

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

Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.

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.

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

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.