Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
ALAN LIGHTMANOur species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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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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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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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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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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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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