With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
ALAN LIGHTMANI wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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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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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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