No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. Isaac Bashevis Singer More Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer More Quotes From Isaac Bashevis Singer It seems that the analysis of character is the highest human entertainment. And literature does it, unlike gossip, without mentioning names. Isaac Bashevis Singer gossipnamescharacter All is foreseen but the choice is given. Isaac Bashevis Singer foreseengivenchoices God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions. Isaac Bashevis Singer idiotemotionstrong 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. Isaac Bashevis Singer skullspowerliterature Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop. Isaac Bashevis Singer feelingspatiencegiving Children?have no use for psychology. Isaac Bashevis Singer psychologyusechildren I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions... Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them. Isaac Bashevis Singer expertscharacterart When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: 'Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?' Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin. Isaac Bashevis Singer determineleadertrying Heaven and earth conspire that everything which has been, be rooted and reduced to dust. Only the dreamers, who dream while awake, call back the shadows of the past and braid nets from the unspun thread. Isaac Bashevis Singer dustdreampast In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative. Isaac Bashevis Singer numerologyastrologypractice But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka") Isaac Bashevis Singer eyedarkdream Those who run around with women don't walk tightropes. They find it hard enough to crawl on the ground. Isaac Bashevis Singer womenenoughrunning The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly. Isaac Bashevis Singer logiccharacter A story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story. Isaac Bashevis Singer passionstorieswriting Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Isaac Bashevis Singer 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 motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. Isaac Bashevis Singer We have to believe in free will. Weve got no choice. Isaac Bashevis Singer A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. Isaac Bashevis Singer storymesurpriselife
