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title: "11 Different Quotes By Alan Lightman"
description: "11 Different quotes by Alan Lightman. Plus more from Alan Lightman and more Different sayings from other authors."
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> [Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/every-reader-gets-something-different-from-a-book-and-every-reader-in/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

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> [In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/in-fiction-writing-i-would-say-there-are-several-different-strands/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f05/alan-lightman-2270_different_in-fiction-writing-i-would-say-there-are_2079127.png)

> [I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-think-what-gets-you-through-a-small-writing-project-is-just-one/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/676/alan-lightman-2270_book_i-think-what-gets-you-through-a-small-wr_2931121.png)

> [I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-re-read-a-lot-of-books-that-i-like-a-lot-there-are-some-books-that/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/825/alan-lightman-2270_book_i-re-read-a-lot-of-books-that-i-like-a-l_2266068.jpg)

> [The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/the-book-is-finished-by-the-reader-a-good-novel-should-invite-the/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ade/alan-lightman-2270_book_the-book-is-finished-by-the-reader-a-goo_2578376.png)

> [A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/a-good-book-changes-for-you-every-few-years-because-you-are-in-a/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/635/alan-lightman-2270_book_a-good-book-changes-for-you-every-few-ye_1898404.png)

> [As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/as-both-a-scientist-and-a-humanist-myself-i-have-struggled-to/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fa/alan-lightman-2270_belief_as-both-a-scientist-and-a-humanist-mysel_904434.jpg)

> [I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-think-people-all-over-the-institution-recognize-that-different-ways/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c9/alan-lightman-2270_amount_i-think-people-all-over-the-institution_3168014.png)

> [I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-picked-such-seemingly-disparate-essays-i-thought-it-was-important/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e98/alan-lightman-2270_authenticity_i-picked-such-seemingly-disparate-essays_2857867.png)

> [I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-think-that-the-scienti-c-way-of-looking-at-the-world-and-the/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/alan-lightman-2270_complementary_i-think-that-the-scienti-c-way-of-lookin_1096815.jpg)

> [In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/in-this-world-time-has-three-dimensions-like-space-just-as-an-object/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

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## Other authors on Different

## More by Alan Lightman

> [“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/in-a-world-of-fixed-future-there-can-be-no-right-or-wrong-right-and/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/i-ve-decided-that-has-been-the-great-achievement-of-our-age-to-so/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/every-reader-gets-something-different-from-a-book-and-every-reader-in/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> ["The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/the-diagnosis-is-by-far-my-most-ambitious-book-i-such-great-hopes-for/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/as-long-as-god-does-not-intervene-in-the-contemporary-universe-in/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/except-for-a-god-who-sits-down-after-the-universe-begins-all-other/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/each-person-who-gets-stuck-in-time-gets-stuck-alone/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/a-writer-is-someone-who-has-a-one-man-tent-in-the-desert-and/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/time-is-a-rigid-bonelike-structure-extending-infinitely-ahead-and/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/for-me-spirituality-includes-the-belief-in-things-larger-than/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/writers-are-a-loosely-knit-community-community-is-an-overstated-word/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/imagine-a-world-in-which-there-is-no-time-only-images/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/time-is-the-clarity-for-seeing-right-and-wrong/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/in-this-world-time-has-three-dimensions-like-space-just-as-an-object/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

> [In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-lightman/in-this-world-there-are-two-times-there-is-mechanical-time-and-there/)

[Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-lightman/)

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