That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Continents of memory had been lost.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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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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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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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 think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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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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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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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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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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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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