All Chaim Potok Quotes
- I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they… Close
- I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble… Chip
- I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to… Alive
- All beginnings are hard. All
- All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up,… All
- Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who… Beauty
- A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of… Difficult
- …everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and… Don T
- If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste. Contribution
- We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what… Ago
- I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there are… Afraid
- A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. Heaven
- Something that is yours forever is never precious Forever
- I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.… Ago
- Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been… Bear
- Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul Bodies
- It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it… Alone
- Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed… Art
- Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed.… Always Killed
- He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is… Aspect
- As you grow older you will discover that the most important things that will happen to you will often come as a result of silly… Better
- A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the… Born
- Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember… Abba
- I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's… Boring
- … the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth. Accustomed