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I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards — or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken.

I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.

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