A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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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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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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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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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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