Isaac Bashevis Singer
» Editing and Editors » “The waste basket is a writer’s best friend.”
» Enjoyment » “The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t — it just keeps you from enjoying it.”
» Enjoyment » “The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t — it just keeps you from enjoying it.”
» Originality » “The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
» Pessimism » “If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”
» Power » “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.”
» Present » “The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.”
» Writers and Writing » “A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.”
