Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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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 told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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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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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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