Ball game Quote by Chaim Potok

“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

“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

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

— Chaim Potok

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.”

— Chaim Potok

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

“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.”

— Chaim Potok

“When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.”

— Chaim Potok