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
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.
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
What do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench their thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark