It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
ALAN LIGHTMANOriginality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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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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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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