Isaac Singer Quotes (7 Quotes)

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

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

Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.

The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish they kept their books they kept their faith.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation and other obsolete stuff.

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

It's harder to fool children than to fool adults when it comes to literature.