Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
ALAN LIGHTMANI also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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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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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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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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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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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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