Isaac Bashevis SingerThinkers

Betrayal is always also a betrayal of oneself.

The Children's book is not something the child expects to redeem humanity; they leave to adults such childish allusions.

The Children's book is written for those readers who don't give a hoot about the critics, who don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation.

Fashion is magical — What a strange power there is in clothing.

Free will is a thing we have no choice but to believe in.

Knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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

Literature is, in its very essence, the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

Love is like electricity. It flares up for a second and is soon extinguished.

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

Religion must have space for doubt. All the religious thinkers were doubters.