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Chaim Potok quotes

American Author February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002

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Chaim Potok quote: "I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six..."
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. Chaim Potok
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 have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed,' my father said..."
It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed,' my father said softly. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in..."
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste. Chaim Potok
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 no boundaries and no permanently fixed views.” Lurie, if the Torah cannot go out into your world of scholarship and return stronger, then we are all fools and charlatans. I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth. Chaim Potok
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
Chaim Potok quote: "a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that..."
...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the..."
Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I..."
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk."
It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you..."
It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism. Chaim Potok
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 and then chip away to find the figure in it. 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 experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. 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 that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I..."
Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you. Chaim Potok

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