In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
ALAN LIGHTMANI 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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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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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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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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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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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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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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