Isaac Singer Quotations

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.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge

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

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.

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.