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Isaac Bashevis Singer Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Nov 21, 1902
  • Died: Jul 24, 1991

Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born Jewish-American author. The Polish form of his birth name was Izaak Zynger and he used his mother's first name in an initial pseudonym, Izaak Baszewis, which he later expanded to the form under which he is now known. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement, writing and publishing only in Yiddish, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He also was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection, A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens. environmental & health

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

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

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