top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
Author Name
Personal Development
"True love asks no question of the heart. It knows with surety."
Author Name
Personal Development
"O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth."
Author Name
Personal Development
"But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again."
Writing
"Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up."
People
"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."
Reading
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel."
Poetry
"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."
Experience
"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."
Beauty
"But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet."
Experience
"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."
People
"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."
Thought
"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."
Writing
bottom of page