Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.
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Usually, the first thing I do when I wake up is I start working, so I often won't start the day by reading anything because I like to minimize my 'commute' as much as possible. I wake up, open my laptop and start working in bed.
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I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and illegible liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.
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People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
