When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
Source: In Time Magazine.
-- Isaac Singer, (Jul 14 1904-1991), Polish-US novelist, short-story writer; He was the foremost Yiddish writer noted for his imagination, irony and wit, e.g., Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy, 1983.