I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
ALAN LIGHTMANSons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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In 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.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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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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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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