The waste-basket is a writer's best friend.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste-basket is the writer's best friend.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Those who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

What a strange power there is in clothing.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer