Alan Lightman Quotes About Essays

Quotes about: Essays

• Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Views, Matter

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

• I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay. I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness. Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.

  Alan Lightman

  Guiding Principles, Focus, Important

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

• Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.

  Alan Lightman

  Population, Serious, Thinker

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

• I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

  Alan Lightman

  Fiction, Jay Gould, Essays

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

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