{"id":39431,"date":"2021-08-12T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=39431"},"modified":"2021-08-11T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T10:13:21","slug":"a-writing-quote-from-isaac-bashevis-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2021\/08\/12\/a-writing-quote-from-isaac-bashevis-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Quote From Isaac Bashevis Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;The wastepaper basket is the writer&#8217;s best friend.&#8221; <\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1902 &#8211; 1991 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-39432\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Shadows-On-The-Hudson-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Shadows-On-The-Hudson-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Shadows-On-The-Hudson-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Shadows-On-The-Hudson.jpg 317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish born, American author of novels, short stories, and essays. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I do know what he means about the wastepaper basket. One must be willing to write and throw away until one downloads, or distills, the &#8216;true and right&#8217; story, in which the right words are all in their right order&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The wastepaper basket is the writer&#8217;s best friend.&#8221; ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1902 &#8211; 1991 &#8212; Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish born, American author of novels, short stories, and essays. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978. I do know what he means about the wastepaper basket. One must be willing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-writing","category-funstuff","category-other-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39433,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431\/revisions\/39433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}