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Isaac Bashevis Singer

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We may not know everything about Isaac Bashevis Singer, but we know they had a way with words. The range of their thinking — from God to Art — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Discover 14 of Isaac Bashevis Singer's most memorable quotes, ranging across God, Art, War, Thankful, and Religion. Consider this gem from Isaac Bashevis Singer: "Life is God's novel. Let him write it."

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life

All Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Environmental

“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

God

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Knowledge

“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Nature

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Best

“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Religion

“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.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Death

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

God

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art