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Chaim Potok quotes about work

American Author February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002

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I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm..."
Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. Chaim Potok
But it would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching surge of effort that is always the difference between integrity and deceit in a created work. I would not be the whore to my own existence. Can you understand that? I would not be the whore to my own existence. Chaim Potok
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
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end. Chaim Potok
I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening. Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok quote: "In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in..."
In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. Chaim Potok
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

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