Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes about Literature

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We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

We must believe in free will - we have no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Believe, Choices, Literature

"Isaac Singer's Promised City". "City Journal", Summer 1997.

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life, Writing, Literature

"Voices for Life" edited by Dom Moraes, 1975.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Memories, Humanity, Literature

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Blood, Justice, Literature

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Writing, Stories, Literature

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Would Be, Stories, Literature

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Law, Differences, Literature

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Two, Literature, Might

"The New York Times", June 30, 1985.

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

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.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Power, Skulls, Literature