Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
I should have written books instead of reading them.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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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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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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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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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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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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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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