Isaac Bashevis Singer

“If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

“Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.”

“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”

“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.”

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

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”

“The waste basket is the writer's best friend.”