A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis SingerI was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichรฉs and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer