I value my correspondence with writers…
ALAN LIGHTMANIt’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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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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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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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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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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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Originality 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.
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