I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
ALAN LIGHTMANI still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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