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ALAN LIGHTMANIn this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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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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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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