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Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. His memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw", won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, while his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.
Educated at Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary.
Emigrated to USA in 1935.
Has worked as journalist and columnist for the New York paper "The Jewish Daily Forward"
Nearly all his fiction was written in Yiddish for the journal.
Received Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark,Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.
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.
Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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.
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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.
A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps.
What a strange power there is in clothing.
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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.
A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
The very essence of literature is 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.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
