Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.”

“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”

“The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.”

“The waste basket is the writer's best friend.”

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

“The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.”

“We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.”

“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.”

“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”

“Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.”