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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.

Alan Lightman

My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Another Finish Good Novel Second Wish Year
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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E-mail Everything Fast Faster Food Goten Mentality Representative Think
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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Anything Cloud Evaporate Ocean Pure Rain Replenishing
So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Feel Hard Life Month Really Silence Two
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Compare Condition Consider Human Being Other Satisfy
Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Book Challenge Film Go Make Quiet
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time
In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Carefully Extremely Fiction Handle Idea Write
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Book Character Pilot Strangle
And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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Beyond Down Equally Law Particular Stretch
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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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
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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Challenge Country Literature Love Material Publish Say Still
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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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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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.

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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.

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