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.
ALAN LIGHTMANIf you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
ALAN LIGHTMANTo that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
ALAN LIGHTMANFor me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
ALAN LIGHTMANEvery reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
ALAN LIGHTMANI reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
ALAN LIGHTMANTime is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
ALAN LIGHTMANNo one ever expects poetry to sell…
ALAN LIGHTMANNot only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
ALAN LIGHTMANAs 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.
ALAN LIGHTMANUnconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
ALAN LIGHTMANSome make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
ALAN LIGHTMANEvery reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
ALAN LIGHTMANI 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.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
ALAN LIGHTMANA world with one month is a world of equality.
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