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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.
Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not. The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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As I understand it, a universe is a ... well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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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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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. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.
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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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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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