We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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