Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. I
  4. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  5. Character

Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes about Character

All Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes Animal Rights Art Character quotes Children Choices Compassion Doubt Fashion Feelings Free Will Giving God Humanity Inspirational Joy Justice Language Life Literature Logic Lying Mercy Passion Soul Today War Writing
The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Character, Logic
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Character, Names, Gossip
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Character, Analysis, Literature
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). “Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Doubleday Books

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Character, Giving, Why Not
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art, Character, Experts
The New York Times, November 26, 1978.

You May Also Like: