Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

I think we're very much in a mystery here in this life and that artists try to pierce the mystery with their art.

I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I'm not sure.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know.

The art is just really mysterious. If I understood it more, maybe I would write more.

And as I've gotten deeper into the process of making films and television and such, I think I have more trust in the fact that you really never know what you're going to find after the twenty-fifth take.

Every time I do one I feel like I've never really quite learned anything. I always find that when I'm making a film, I find it a little bit like I'm doing it for the first time.

I've been told that no one knows what happens in the future on 'Game of Thrones.' To my knowledge, I've shot one episode. So I'm as excited as anyone else to find out what happens.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

I think what's so great about making your first feature film is that you're so naive in some ways; you don't know what to expect, and you don't question things as much because you're just trying to figure it out as you go.

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.

The BBC knew I was successful from early on, but they weren't sure why, and they still aren't sure. What I do has been unconventional from the beginning, so they've never been sure. It just works. It just does.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

You kinda don't know what's going to make a good song. You've got to shoot around in the dark for a little while.

The slightest thing can ruin a scene, but you must be willing to take chances.

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.

Even the best comedians aren't always sure what is going to be funny, what is going to work. So that means they're constantly and trying and failing in order to get there.

I had no idea if 'No Roots' was going to work or not.