I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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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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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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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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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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