Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish-born American author and one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement.
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“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
“A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is-full of surprises.”
“I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.”
“The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.”
“The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.”
“We must believe in free will, we have no choice”
“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”
“If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.”
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge”
“The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.”