#me

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 stay alive. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#altogether #argue #certain #experience #fundamentalism

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#agony #any #discovery #exploration #go

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#culture #feel #fuse #impossible #measure

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beings #feel #half #human #human beings

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #diminish #early #early work #foreground

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#beginnings #come #constitutes #contending #deeply

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#film #making #name #some #thought

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#god #i #lazy #names #new

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#assert #be yourself #order #something #you

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. ↗