Authors:
  • Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.

    "Alan Lightman Interview". Interview with Alex Burack, www.literarytraveler.com. May 4, 2007.