The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
ALAN LIGHTMAN“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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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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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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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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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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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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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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