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Chaim Potok Quotes
Page 2 of 2Chaim Potok
February 17, 1929 - July 23, 2002
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author
|  Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | 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. | | Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things. | | Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. | | And yet there are some magnificent things from Freud, profound insights into the nature of man. |
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