"I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds."

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Source : ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

Alan Lightman

#Writing Quotes #Our World Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“I like to explore things.”
“I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].”
“Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.”
“The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and to thine own self be true. Have dreams/goals and never quit working toward achieving them.”
“In his eyes I saw all the other possibilities. The dream-world possibilities. The fairytale possibilities. The seemingly impossible possibilities.”

Source : Tiffanie DeBartolo (2005). “How to Kill a Rock Star”, p.126, Sourcebooks, Inc.
“The improvisational ability to lead adaptively relies on responding to the present situation rather than importing the past into the present and laying it on the current situation like an imperfect template.”
“The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.”
“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.”

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