In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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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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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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