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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More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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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 think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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