The 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.


Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer (ed. Doubleday Books, 1985)

Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it...

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it...

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it...

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it...