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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

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

What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#advance #encountering #explore #i #i see

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

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast. ↗