Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
My name is Asher Lev... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“DW: Some critics have written that they don’t admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result of much… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on his face.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Basically it’s none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we’re on the trail of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
