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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.

Alan Lightman

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Book Couple Every Like Lot Re-read Reread Some Try Year
All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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Draw Family Root Travel Work Writer
That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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Book Down Experience Happen Shor Someone Speak Strange
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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Back First Forth Iron Massive Metallic Pendulum Rigid Swing
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way
Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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Born Movement Parent Passion Person Record Somewhere
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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Game Golf Play Terrible Use
The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Interest More Power Quantity Target
Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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Body Contain Exquisite Fact Flow Hydrogen Laboratory Oblivious Variable
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Dimension Space Three Time World
Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Author Law Play Second Spellbound Thermodynamic
it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Hard Ignore Invent Real Sometimes Tell There
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Not Often See
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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Class Contemporary Craft Learn Literature Mist Student Try Useful Write

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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