Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (November 21, 1902 – July 24, 1991) was a Polish-born, American author best known for his short stories. He was a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. He won two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children’s Literature for his memoir A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw and one in Fiction for his collection A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories.