A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. β¨ Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything. The New York Times Interview, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.
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- Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. β¨ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). Aspects of I.B. Singer
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- We must believe in free will - we have no choice. β¨ Isaac Singer's Promised City. City Journal, Summer 1997.
- 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 r β¦ βΆ
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