Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
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"Life is God's novel. Let him write it."
"الحياة رواية الله، فدعه يكتبها."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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."
"كل مبدع يتألم ألمًا مبرحًا من الهوة السحيقة بين رؤاه الداخلية وتجلّيها الأخير. هذه الهوة لا تُردم أبدًا بالكامل. وكلنا يحمل قناعة، ربما وهمية، بأن لديه الكثير ليقوله أكثر مما يظهر على الورق."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"What a strange power there is in clothing."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Life is God's Novel. Let Him write it. -Isaac Bashevis Singer"
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"We must believe in free will, we have no choice."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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
"We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"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
"Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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