A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhat do they know-all these scholars, all these philosophers, all the leaders of the world - about such as you? They have convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other creatures were created merely to provide him with food, pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.
Isaac Bashevis SingerA story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.
Isaac Bashevis SingerTo me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.
Isaac Bashevis Singer