Quotes About Alan Lightman

A Presbyterian minister recently said to me that science and religion share a sense of wonder. I agree.

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.

If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.