My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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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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Everyone shares the same fate.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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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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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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