Isaac Bashevis Singer

We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

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 rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff... They don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. Young as they are, they know that it is not in his power. Only the adults have such childish illusions.
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
― Isaac Bashevis Singer