Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singerwas a Polish-born Jewish author in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. The Polish form of his birth name was Icek Hersz Zynger. He used his mother's first name in an initial literary pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish. He was also awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth14 July 1904
CountryUnited States of America
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.
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
All that God does is for the good.
No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
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.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.