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Famous Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
“What a strange power there is in clothing.”
“When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.”
“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.”
“God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.”
“Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.”
“We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.”
“The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.”
“There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.”
“When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.”
“While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.”
“From borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.”
“But if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers.”
“No matter how much you know a human being, you don't know him enough.”
“A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.”
“In relation to them (animals), all people are Nazis for the animals, it is an eternal Treblinka.”
“Shoulders are from God and burdens too.”