Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
ALAN LIGHTMANIf 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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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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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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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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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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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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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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