It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
ALAN LIGHTMANJust 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…
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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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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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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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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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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