I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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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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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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