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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.

Alan Lightman

You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Beauty Feel Grand Grander Harmony Something
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Deal Know Speak Time Unable
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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Burst Inspiration Project Small Think Write
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
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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Develop Evolution Million Procreation Species Write
It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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Every Just Moment Speak Spoken Word World
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Book Character Pilot Strangle
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Book Couple Every Like Lot Re-read Reread Some Try Year
Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Continent Disagree Eternal Fix Frozen Life
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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Belief Beneficial Consider Contradiction Faith Matter
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Challenge Country Literature Love Material Publish Say Still
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Arcade Instrument Arch Avenue Beneath Browse Build Converse Down Enter Friend Sandstone Time

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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