I don’t invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions. … Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) Polish-American writer, Nobel laureate (b. Icek-Hersz Zynger)
Interview with Richard Burgin, New York Times Magazine (26 Nov 1978)

 
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