If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
ALAN LIGHTMANScientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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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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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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