Alan Lightman Quotes
Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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 LightmanAlan Lightman It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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,
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman 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.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman “Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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