Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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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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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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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.
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