I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I'm still happy with the way Einstein's Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
“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… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
