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"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."
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"This scripture is saying that you will always have bread and water on your table."
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"You have to discover the essence of your creation."
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"Sometimes scientific discoveries are like that. Once people know something is possible, the pace of new findings increases. (Wylan)"
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"We must allow people the space and time of discovery, and trust in all that is to come."
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"If you want to identify the purpose of a thing, only its creator can provide you the answer."
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"A lot of time should be spent on finding your purpose."
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"Your calling is buried in your background on earth."
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"Answers comes only when questions are asked."
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"Your discovery determines what you are known for."
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"You need to find your gift, something you love doing."
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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."
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"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
"In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism."
Religion
"All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it."
Family
"I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week."
Work
"Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev."
Thought
"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
"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."
Talk
"Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it."
Time
"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
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